Nature By NameSign inCreate an account

Plants › Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies

Brook Thistle

Cirsium rivulare

Learn Brook Thistle freeHow it works
Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) vaudoiseaux, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

See all photosAdd a photo

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 55, February 40, March 63, April 100, May 144, June 157, July 168, August 144, September 106, October 79, November 43, December 34.
United States1,132
Alaska1,132
Poland174
Austria170
Ukraine107
Germany95
Bayern77
Slovakia58
Lithuania56
Niederösterreich52

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
GenusPlume Thistles · Cirsium

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Brook Thistle with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

Create a free accountHow it works