Asteraceae FAMILY

Cirsium palustre

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cirsium palustre is a prickly, biennial plant producing a basal cluster of leaves and an erect flowering stem around 30 - 150cm tall[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of materials.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeThroughout most of Europe, but absent from the southeast, extending through Russia to western Siberia and Kazakhstan

HabitatDamp soils in meadows, marshes, hedgerows and woodland[ 5 Title Food for Free. Publication Author Mabey. R. Publisher Collins Year 1974 ISBN 0-00-219060-5 Description Edible wild plants found in Britain. Fairly comprehensive, very few pictures and rather optimistic on the desirability of some of the plants. , 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].