Definition of Common carline thistle

1. Noun. Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils.

Exact synonyms: Carlina Vulgaris
Generic synonyms: Carline Thistle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Carline Thistle

common booklouse
common box
common brant goose
common broom
common bullfinch
common bullfinches
common burdock
common buzzard
common buzzards
common calamint
common camas
common canary
common caper
common cardinal vein
common carline thistle (current term)
common carotid
common carotid artery
common carotid plexus
common carp
common carps
common carrier
common chickweed
common chickweeds
common chord
common clothes moth
common clothes moths
common cockscomb
common cold
common cold virus

Literary usage of Common carline thistle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John Richard Wise, Walter Crane (1863)
"CARDUUS ACAULIS, Ian., Dwarf Thistle, 606. ONOPORDUM ACANTHIUM, Lin., Cot- ton Thistle, 608. CARLINA VULGARIS, Lin., common carline thistle, 609. ..."

2. Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of by Charles Abbot (1798)
"V, 57, Borders of Fields, July, B. Common. Carline Thistle. ... Common Carline Thistle. — C. vulgaris. Stem with many flowers in a flat topped spike, ..."

3. Contributions Towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork by J. R. Harvey, Thomas C. Power, John D. Humphreys, Cuvierian Society of Cork (1845)
"177. CARLINA, Linn. CARLINE-THISTLE. 391. C. vulgaris, L. Common Carline-thistle. In the Little Island ; Mr. J. Drummond. ..."

4. The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement by John Claudius Loudon (1827)
"Common Carline thistle (Carlina vulgaris). Pasture weeds which generally prevail in loamy soils, and such also as are prevalent in clayey and damp soils, ..."

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