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Canada Thistle [Circium arvense]

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Common Name: Canada Thistle
Scientic Name: Circium arvense
Colors: Red
Months Appearing: August

Non-native, perennial, aggressive "noxious" weed.

Up to 5 feet tall. 

Leaves lobed,spiny and stalkless.

Flowers in flat topped panicles. ~ 3/4 inches in diameter.

Roadside, Mecosta County, Michigan. 6/1, 1279, 1281,1282