Plant Description:

• Introduced plant, seen on disturbed sites and along field edges
• Tough, wooly, much-branched, leafy plant growing up to 150 cm tall
• Green, dissected, prickly, hairy leaves
• Many purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped bracts
• Found at Stop 7

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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