BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

PLANTAE
(plants)

SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)

Cardueae
(“thistles”)

Cirsium
(a genus of thistles)

Cirsium vulgare
(Spear Thistle)

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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. (Spear Thistle)

Date:	7 August 1970
Location:	East Sussex, England
State:	Plant

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	Plants			500 by 328 pixels

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