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Cirsium oleraceum (L.) Scop.

cabbage thistle (Asteraceae / Compositae)

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Cirsium oleraceum is, like Cirsium erisithales, a yellow-flowering thistle, but in this species the uppermost leaves are longer than the flower-heads and conceal them.

Seine-Maritime (76), France; 1999-09-12

 cabbage thistle / Cirsium oleraceum: _Cirsium oleraceum_ is, like _Cirsium erisithales_, a yellow-flowering thistle, but in this species the uppermost leaves are longer than the flower-heads and conceal them.

Cirsium oleraceum is an occasional escape, mostly in northern England.

Gutensteiner Alpen, Austria; 2004-09-25

 cabbage thistle / Cirsium oleraceum: _Cirsium oleraceum_ is an occasional escape, mostly in northern England.

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