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The thistle is the national flower of Scotland, & features around several Scottish symbols and logotype. Legend has it that the Viking attacker stepped on 1 when asleep & call out, thus alerting the defenders of a Scottish castle.
The Thistle is a high performance racing dinghy, also utilized for day sailing, popular in the United States.
Thistle is the most common title of the total of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp spines on the margins, mostly in the plant personal Asteraceae. Genera in a Asteraceae sustaining the word thistle typically utilized in their most common list include:
Arctium – Burdock
Carduus – Thistle
Carlina – Carline thistle
Centaurea – Star thistle
Cicerbita – Sow thistle
Cirsium – Thistle
Cynara – Artichokes, Cardoon thistle
Echinops – Globethistle
Onopordum – Cotton thistle
Silybum – Milk thistle
Sonchus – Sow thistle
More unrelated plants every now and again known as thistle include:
Salsola – Saltwort or Tumbleweed (personal Amaranthaceae; sometimes known as Russian thistle)
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