Cirsium helenioides

Definitions of Cirsium helenioides
  1. noun
    perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers
    synonyms: Cirsium heterophylum, melancholy thistle
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    type of:
    thistle
    any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
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