Cotton Thistle
Onopordum acanthium
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- Type: Flowering Plant
- Family: Asteraceae
- Genus: Onopordum
- Species: acanthium
- Colour: Pink
- Colour: Purple
- Habitat: Meadows
- Habitat: Scrubland
- Habitat: Waysides
- Site:East London
- Site:UK
- Site:Wanstead Flats
- Month:June
- Photographer:RKS