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Onopordum
cotton thistle, Scotch thistle
- Height 8 ft (240 cm)
- Planting distance 21/2 ft (75 cm)
- Flowers mid- to late summer
- Rich or ordinary garden soil
- Sunny or partially shaded site
- Hardy biennial
Scotch, or cotton, thistle (Onopordum acanthium) is an excellent
specimen plant in a border, large shrubbery, or wild garden. Its
dramatic foliage - broad silver-gray spiny leaves - is covered with
white cobweblike hairs. Purple thistlelike flowers appear from mid- to
late summer.
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