Thistle Flower Yellow. This plant is protected in several New England states. Identification The flowers of thistles are typically shades of pink lavender and purple sometimes theyre white and some species have yellow or red flowers.
Thistle is the old English name - essentially the same in all kindred languages - for a large family of plants occurring chiefly in Europe and Asia of which we have fourteen species in Great Britain arranged under the botanical groups Carduus Carlina Onopordon and Carbenia or Cnicus. Bull thistle yellowspine lacks cobwebby phyllaries wavyleaf thistle yellowspine forms clumps with multiple stems 21. The bracts of the flower heads are armed with stout straw-colored spines one to two inches 25 to 5 centimeters long that radiate from the flower head in a star shape.
It is low maintenance full-sun plant that requires minimum watering.
3 inch wide yellow and pink to purple disc flower heads atop multi-branched stems. Watercolor hand painted nature wild insect and plant composition with yellow black three flying bees and pink milk thistle flower. Flowers reddish purple purple pink or rarely white. A densely hairy and spiny plant yellow thistle is most commonly found near the coast including on the upper edges of salt marshes.