Hogwood Warning
- SWPaDon
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When I was growing up, my cousins and I would use the purple blossoms like chewing tobacco, LOLSunny Boy wrote:That makes more sense. That American Burnweed doesn't look nasty enough to be in the thistle family !
We have a lot of Bull Thistle here. Very common weed that's tough to keep away. Gets up to 8 feet tall in good conditions - but most only get to about 6 foot here. Believe me, you don't want to walk into one, or step barefoot on a young one just coming up in the lawn. Pretty blooms, but the rest of the plant is nature's barbed wire !!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium_vulgare
The one in the picture is outside my shop. Being it's the national plant of Scotland, and she being of Scottish decent, Melissa wanted to save one to see how it would grow.
Paul
- warminmn
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When I was growing up, my cousins and I would use the purple blossoms like chewing tobacco, LOL[/quote]
OUCH! And ouch coming from a former corn silk smoker
When I was growing up, my cousins and I would use the purple blossoms like chewing tobacco, LOL[/quote]
OUCH! And ouch coming from a former corn silk smoker