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Bull Thistle, Cirsium vulgare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

Extract

The rough burn-thistle spreading wide

Amang the bearded ear—

I turned the weeding heuk aside

An’ spared the emblem dear!

(Robert Burns [1759–1796], Scottish poet)

Type
Intriguing World of Weeds
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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