Description. The root is fibrous. The stalk is upright, thick, branched, and five feet high. The leaves are long and moderately broad, and they are very beautifully divided, somewhat in the manner of Spear Thistles, but with more numerous and more regular segments. Their colour is a deep green. The flowers grow at the tops of the branches in large woolly heads; and they are of a fine deep purple.
Place. We have it in our western counties, but not very common.
Time. It flowers in August.