CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

SPEAR THISTLE

Description. The root is long, and hung with many fibres. The stalk is upright, six feet high, very prickly, and divided into many branches. The leaves are long and large; their colour is a pale green, and they are deeply divided at the edges into pointed segments: and at the end are formed in the same manner, resembling the point of a spear. The flowers grow at the tops of the brances, and are large and purple.

Place. It is common in waste grounds.

Time. It flowers in July.