Annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers.
Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea.
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Examples for "blessed thistle"
Examples for "blessed thistle"
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I take the entire plant for a tonic and blessed thistle leaves and flowers for the same purpose.
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To relieve this disagreeable feeling he was in the habit of taking a copious draught of an infusion of " blessed thistle" and ipecacuanha.
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Blessed thistle is cultivated in Germany, and it is imported to a limited extent.
Perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers.
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Stocks, sweet sultan, and tall wands of evening primrose graded this border up to another shrubbery.