Canada thistle

Cirsium arvense

Description
Perennial weed with deep taproot and deep-set, initially perpendicularly-running root stolons that later bend downward geniculately, non-lacteal.
C. arvense likes nitrogen and has a very high phenotypic variability with different subspecies.

Characteristic Features
Prickly leaves, lilac florets.

Cotyledons
Wide oval, fleshy, dark green, entire, hardly petiolate, prostrate.

Stems
Erect, ramified, spineless, nearly hairless, angularly furrowed, up to 150 cm (59.05 inch) high.

Leaves
First leaves inverse-ovate, following leaves lanceolate, simple to pinnatifid, wavy-ruffled, sessile.
Leaf margin with soft to hard spines.

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