FREE: 50+ Bull Thistle Seed Attracts Finches and Swallow Tails

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The bull thistle is a biennially growing plant. The main stem of this wild edible is firm and thorny. This plant bears leaves that end in extended, very sharp thorns and are beige in color.

Bull thistle flower heads are purple and are usually solitary. There are clusters of them that grow at the ends of shoots and branches. Flowers are subtended by narrow, spine-tipped bracts.

Bull thistle can grow in a wide range of environments but prefers disturbed areas. It tends to grow best in soils with intermediate moisture although it will grow in dry and wet soils. It likes pastures, edges of woods, waste places, fence lines and roadsides. Its rosettes are occasionally troublesome in lawns and gardens.

Edible parts: Bull thistle root can be eaten and is best used when mixed with other vegetables. Young flower stems can be cooked and young leaves can be eaten in a salad or tossed into a sauté. The taste is somewhat bland but the prickles MUST BE removed from the leaves before the leaves can be eaten! The flower buds can be cooked and used like globe artichokes, but they are smaller. Bull thistle seeds can be roasted. (Bull thistle root is rich in inulin.)

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These seeds are organic and freshly harvested Sept. 2014.

These will be shipped 1st Class mail thru the USPS.