Once upon a time, no self-respecting gardener would have dreamt of cultivating thistles. However, in recent years many of them have become quite desirable garden plants. Heading the field as one of ...

Narrow endemics are at risk from climate change because of their restricted habitat preferences, lower colonization ability and dispersal distances. Landscape genetics combines new tools and analyses ...

This-le, noun, widely distributed herbaceous plant of the daisy family, typically has prickly stems and leaves and rounded heads of purple flowers. There are more than 62 varieties of native thistles ...

IN NATURE (November 14, p. 711) Mr. Stuart Thompson alludes to the woolly-headed thistle—Cirsium eriophorum—being found at Chewton Keynsham, and remarks that it was from specimens gathered there in ...