Close-up on a budding flower. The Walsingham Farm, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape (2024). Also called musk thistle, or nodding plumeless thistle. A spiny, herbaceous, biennial plant, with sharp spines that densely covers the stems and leaf margin, giving the plant a spiny texture. Leaves dark green and bipinnately lobed.Flower heads are large, red, pink or… Continue reading Nodding thistle (Carduus nutans)