Purple Spiney
April 1st, 2008
What this flower, purple little ball with tons of little hair like things?
I need to know what this flower is that I found in my yard, it has a slightly spiney stem with a cluster of hail like pedals that form a ball. Each hair has a small yellow dot at the end. The leafs are clusters of tiny leafs together in rows, and these rows cluster together to form leaf like shapes. The balls are a little under an inch in diameter.
Is it perhaps some kind of thistle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle
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