Cirsium helenioides
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Flowers, Leaves
The flowers and leaves are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Asia, Europe, Mongolia, Scandinavia, Sweden,
How to Identify
A thistle in the Asteraceae family found in temperate regions.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Cirsium helenioides, the melancholy thistle, is an Asian and Arctic species of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. The species is native to Greenland (but considered extinct from Greenland since 1960), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Xinjiang and Kazakhstan. Cirsium helenioides is a perennial plant herb up to 120 cm (48 inches) tall, usually not branched, blooming only once before dying. Leaves are green on top, woolly underneath, with thin spines along the edges. There is one flower head per plant, with purple (occasionally white) disc florets but no ray florets.
Names & Synonyms
References (2)
- Svanberg, I, 2012, The use of wild plants as food in pre-industrial Sweden. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 81(4): 317-327
- Urgamal, M., Oyuntsetseg, B., Nyambayar, D. & Dulamsuren, Ch. 2014. Conspectus of the vascular plants of Mongolia. (Editors: Sanchir, Ch. & Jamsran, Ts.). Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. “Admon“ Press. 334pp. (p. 199-230).
