| Common Name: | Plumeless thistle |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Carduus |
| Species: | acanthoides |
| Classification/Rank: | Very Invasive |
| Method of Transportation: | |
| Habitat/Range: | • none reported in Northwest BC • occurs in isolated pockets in the Thompson agricutural region, but is a major concern in the Omineca agricultural region |
• biennial herb that grows 0.3 to 1.5 m tall
• stems spiny-winged and branched above
• basal leaves lacking; stem leaves narrowly elliptical in outline, deeply lobed or pinately cut, sparsely hairy on main veins, spiny margined
• flowers purprle; heads discoid, clustered, or solitary and erect at the ends of branches
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