A fantastic prickly annual, the False Purple Thistle is strikingly showy flower commonly seen on wildflower meadows and common rock gardens. They have broadly branching stems clothed with deeply lobed leaves edged and tipped with stiff spines emerging gray-green, and turns to purple when it reaches maturity. Royal purple thistle-like flower heads resembling small pineapples, are on display with each flowerhead is adorned with bright blue anthers and surrounded by conspicuous spiny-tipped violet bracts. The entire plant is almost covered with brilliant purple, brightening the landscape in late summer and early fall.

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