Description:Musk Thistle is a common biennial found on limestone. The prickly stems are bare for some distance below the solitary nodding flower-heads.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height of 45cm.
This example was found growing at Oakamoor in Staffordshire Samuel Berrisford.
About this plant
This plant is now cared for by staff at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.