Plant paradise: Tateyama thistle and other common wayside thistles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was an alpine thistle sighted on the Tateyama alpine scrubland of the Northern Alps. Compare it with the common variety of thistle below.

Kitsune-no-amami

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circium japonicum also known as  Daji in Japanese. Wayside thistle.