Irish wildflowers sitemap
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Spear Thistle Deep purple flowers. Few erect globular flower-heads, slightly cottony. Green outer bracts, prickly, spreading. Wavy, deep-pinnate leaves, ending in sharp prickles. Few toothed. White-cottony beneath, rough, almost-prickly above. Stout erect stems with spiny wings. Height: 70-150cm. Abundant on disturbed ground, grassland, roadsides. 
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Photographs above: Ballingeary, Co.Cork