Yellow-flowered Thistles & Allies
Daisy Family - Asteraceae
See also thistles and knapweeds with blue and purple flowers.
Flat-topped Carline Thistle Carlina corymbosaNative throughout southern Europe. Common in stony places.
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Yellow Star-thistle Centaurea solstitialis
Widespread throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region to Central Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. A very slender and upright plant covered with grey-white hairs and with strongly winged stems. Flowerheads have three-spined tips to the phyllaries.
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Downy Safflower Phonus lanatus
(Carthamus lanatus) Native throughout most of Europe, Macaronesia and the Mediterranean, eastwards to Central Asia and the Himalayan region. Whole plant covered in greyish, felty hairs.
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Blessed Thistle Centaurea benedicta
(St. Benedict's Thistle) Native to warmer parts of the Mediterranean Region, eastwards through the Middle East to Central Asia and western China. An annual species with a clammy feel to the plant due to glandular hairs.
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Common Golden Thistle Scolymus hispanicus
(Spanish Oysterplant) Native throughout the Mediterranean Region eastwards to Iran.
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