Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Co.Cork 
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Teasel Dense heads of small pink-mauve flowers with spiny linear bracts below. Leaf rosette of lanceolate prickly leaves in first year. Second year tall, erect, very prickly flowering stem with narrow leaves, prickly underneath. Height: To 2m Prefers clay soils, roadsides, rough grassland, waste ground, wood edges. Scattered distribution, native some areas, probably introduced in others. 
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