Folklore of Thistles: Protection from Evil, Predicting Rain, and a Mental Boost

Thistles aren’t a single plant. The term ‘thistle’ refers to a group of plants in the Asteraceae family. The main thing they have in common is the fact they’ve got prickles to try to stop herbivores from eating them. Three specific groups, the Carduus, Cirsium and Onopordum, are usually the plants people mean when they […]

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