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Bookmark or Share- The Irresistible Thistle: Invaluable Native Plant - Choose NativesNative thistles are the host plant to many caterpillar species. Two bumble bees digging into pasture thistle. Native bees of all sizes visit thistles.
- Thistle - WikipediaThistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the plant – on the stem and on the flat parts of the leaves. These prickles are an adaptation that protects the plant from being eaten by herbivores.
- Think twice before killing those thistles: Thistle IdentificationThistles are one of the most common weed problems that property owners deal with in Clackamas County. Many of the thistles we encounter are invasive and can grow to dominate a property. But did you know there are at least four thistles that are not only non-invasive, but native to western Oregon?
- Thistles: A Highly Nutritious and Medicinal Weed - PermacultureThistles: A Highly Nutritious and Medicinal Weed - Permaculture. Chris Hope explains the medicinal benefits of the thistle, an abundant 'weed' with many uses. Articles. Thistles are a bane of picnickers and campers. Who hasn’t trodden on the sharp, unforgiving spines of a thistle when out and about barefoot in grasslands?
- Foraging Thistle for Food and Medicine - Practical Self RelianceThistle Root. Thistles will resprout readily if cut down, so it’s best to dig the whole plant up by the root. The root is edible, and according to one source, it tastes “like burdock root only better.”. While burdock stalks are delicious, I really can’t stand burdock root, and I think it tastes like bitter dirt.
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