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Cirsium texanum
Prickly, taprooted biennial or perennial 2-5 ft. Winter plant is a basal rosette of large leaves. In the spring it sends up branching flower stalk. Pink to purple tubular disk flowers in rounded head.
This was growing in a meadow area near Lake Lewisville.
Thistle is attractive to many butterflies and other insects.
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