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Purple Thistle Flowers - Meadow of purple/magenta wildflowers with selective focus on foreground flowers.

Medical mug Herbs for health and beauty.

Bunch of fluffy thistle flowers in august field

Detailed closeup on an emerging European spear thistle plant, Cirsium vulgare growing in a meadow

Valeriana officinalis - Real valerian. Common name, Valerian.

$Short to tall , hairless perennial; stem solitary, branched. Leaves soft, pinnately-lobed, toothed, with a large triangular end lobe, the upper leaves clasping the stem, the lower stalked. Flowerheads small, pale yellow, 7-8mm, in a broad lax panicle, each with only 5 rayed florets. Achenes blackish with a pale beak.\nHabitats: Rocky woodland, hedgebanks, waste places, walls and other rocky places, on calcareous or base rich soils.\nFlowering Season: June-September.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except the far north.\n\nThis is a common Species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

Macro of a thistle in the backlight on a fine meadow. Nice sunlight from behind.

Cow parsnip at Milgara Ridge Golden Gate National Recreation Area on a foggy spring day.

Fresh artichokes isolated on white background. Studio shot

Smyrnium olusatrum, common name Alexanders, is an edible cultivated flowering plant of the family Apiaceae. It is also known as alisanders, horse parsley, black lovage

An atmospheric landscape of a foothill meadow with numerous herbs

$Tall greyish annual or biennial; stems to 1.9m, stiff and erect, hairless or rather bristly. Leaves oblong, pinnately-lobed, prickly on margins and along the midrib beneath; upper leaves held in a vertical position, deeply lobed, clasping the stem. Flowerheads pale yellow, 11-13mm, in a narrow or pyramidal panicle. Achenes greyish.\nHabitat: Disturbed and waste ground, sand dunes.\nFlowering Season: July-September.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, except Ireland and the far North.\n\nThis is a common Species in the described Habitats in the Netherlands.$

Thistle plant isolated on a white background

Achill Island, off the west coast, is the largest island of Ireland

Autumn angelnica growing on Heimaey island, the largest of Westman Islands, south of Iceland.

flower of the herbal plant blumea lacera

elevated view image of globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus) plants, with ripe artichoke globes ready for harvest.

A well focussed close-up of a Cow parsnip leaf against a natural grass background. Also known as Common hogweed, Eltrot and Keck.

Rhinanthus alectorolophus (European yellow-rattle) flower on a wildflower meadow. The image was captured during summer season.

Red-seeded dandelion (Taraxacum erythrospermum) is a species of dandelion introduced to much of North America and is very similar to, and often mistaken for, the common dandelion. It most readily differs by its reddish-brown seed bases that are arranged in ball-like seedhead, whereas its flowers are yellow composed of numerous small florets. It can also be identified by its leaves, which have consistently triangular lobes throughout.

Green grass background. Closeup spring view

$Tall perennial to 2.5m, though often less; stem stout, erect, 4-angled,hollow, densely glandular hairy above. Leaves greyish, the basal ones lanceolate, unlobed to pinnately lobed with a soft spiny margin; middle leaves arrowhead shaped, clasping; uppermost leaves narrow and bract-like. Flower heads pale yellow, 28-40mm, in tight clusters, flower bracts with blackish green glands. Achenes yellow.\nHabitat: Wet places, reed beds by fresh or brackish water, on base rich, peaty or alluvial soils.\nFlowering Season: July-September\nDistribution: Throughout Europe, North to S Scandinavia.\n\nThis is a quite common Species in the Western Part of the Netherlands.$

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