- Author: Guy B Kyser
Published on: March 4, 2013
This is part of a talk I gave last week in Marin County. These three annual thistles turn up everywhere in northern California, so it's nice to know them by name. They're mostly on disturbed sites, roadsides, and waste ground, but they can also establish on rangeland, pasture, and natural areas.They germinate and grow into rosettes during winter, then in spring they bolt and produce purple flowers.
Like a lot of our weeds, these species originated in southern Europe, southwestern Asia, and the Middle East. They 'learned' how to survive alongside human agriculture early on. |
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