CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

LADY'S THISTLE

Description. This is a stately and very beautiful plant; and, if brought from a remote part of the world, would be much esteemed in our gardens. The root is long, and furnished with numerous fibres. The stalk is upright, firm, regularly branched, and five feet high. The leaves are very large, long, broad, irregularly notched at the edges, of a deep fine green colour, and veined and variegated with blueish white. The flowers are very large and purple, and the heads are prickly.

Place. It is common in open pastures and wate places.

Time. It flowers in July.