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Carl Farmer |
Very common in damp ground including moorland, marshes, roadsides, croft land and beside burns. Flowerhead diameter c 10-15 mm ID: Stem spiny. Leaves with spiny edges but not spiny on leaf surface. Other features: Involucral bracts purplish, flowerheads clustered at ends of stems and branches. In some populations there are plants with pink flowers as well as normal ones. A biennial, over-wintering as a large ground rosette. |
