Thistle / Distel
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Bull thistle is a moderately large wildflower, I must say it looks very beautiful and it placed itself in a corner where 2 fence meet, although is a family of Sunflower it looks nothing like it, I will cut each flower that blooms and bring it indoors before the seeds form, this Thistle will take over any garden, end of the season I have to dig it up.
Musk Thistle (also known as Nodding Plumeless Thistle) is a striking flower. There is only one flower per stem, which is somewhat unique among thistles, and they have no ray flowers, which is unique among composite flowers.
Unfortunately Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans, Carduus macrocephalus) is deemed an invasive alien species in Colorado.
Another sign that summer is over is to see how the thistles look after the flowering time is completely over and their tiny little flowers are gone.
What I like about this flower is the way that light hits it at that time of the day making the color disappear from one side or to say it correctly reflects it, and how the lens of the camera reacts to it.
It is sad that this format here in Flickr doesn't allow a vertical photo to show all its details and beauty like an horizontal one..
If you want to know more about this very photogenic subject, here is something to read about:
" Like the flower needs the rain..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-7n1hdK3M
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
I love these beautiful and unusual flowers just as much as the bees and butterflies that frequently visit them!
On one of our outings in Colorado, we came across this patch of wild thistle by a lake. I thought that the light was hitting it beautifully and decided it was worth taking a picture of.
A wonderful sight to see. I haven't seen thistles since we left Étampes and I was beginning to miss them. Being by the sea is wonderful, but sometimes I miss the greenery we had in Essonne.
There was a garden on the route I took today that is really overgrown with wonderful wild flowers growing everywhere and these delightful thistles.
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
Everyday when I drive to work I see this strange kind of field. it's something like reeds but I don't think that it is reed because it isn't a moister ground and I don't know any farmer who plants reed to harvest in autmn :-)