Asteraceae
Melancholy thistle
Cirsium heterophyllum
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Cirsium
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Common names
By language (22)
- Belarusian
- Бадзяк разналісты
- Chinese
- 堆心蓟
- Czech
- Pcháč různolistý
- Danish
- Forskelligbladet Tidsel
- Dutch
- Sombere vederdistel
- English
- Melancholy thistle
- Estonian
- Villohakas
- Finnish
- Huopaohdake
- French
- Cirse à feuilles variables
- German
- Verschiedenblättrige Kratzdistel, Alantdistel
- Icelandic
- Purpuraþistill
- Italian
- Cardo tagliente
- Latvian
- Dažādlapu dadzis
- Lithuanian
- Įvairialapė usnis
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Kvitbladtistel
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Kvitbladtistel
- Polish
- Ostrożeń dwubarwny
- Russian
- Бодяк разнолистный
- Slovak
- Pichliač rôznolistý
- Swedish
- Brudborste, Borsttistel
- Ukrainian
- Осот різнолистий
- Welsh
- Ysgallen fwyth
Synonyms
- Carduus ambiguus Pers.
- Carduus autareticus Vill.
- Carduus hastatus Lam.
- Carduus helenifolius Salisb.
- Carduus heterophyllus L.
- Carduus polymorphus Lapeyr.
- Cirsium ambiguum All.
- Cirsium autareticum Mutel
- Cirsium carolorum C.Jenner ex Nyman
- Cirsium hastatum Thell. ex Schinz
- Cirsium heterophyllum subsp. heterophyllum
- Cirsium heterophyllum var. heterophyllum
- Cirsium pauciflorum W.D.J.Koch
- Cnicus ambiguus Loisel.
- Cnicus heterophyllus (L.) Retz.
- Cynara diversifolia Stokes
Photos
Photo: MPF, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Matti Virtala, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: James Anderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.