Hooker’s Thistle
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I recently devoted seven posts to the Texas thistle, beginning with
I wasn’t familiar with Hooker’s thistle, but we have other plants in Texas that have Hooker’s name attached to them.
Cirsium hookerianum
That’s in the same genus as the Texas thistle, Cirsium texanum, that we have here. Thanks.