2026-05-02 15:48 UTC
@carstenfranke@mastodon.social @daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se
For sure. Nodding thistle is another name for musk thistle. If you let it flower (don’t!), you’ll see that the heavy flower head will bend the stem toward the ground — nodding.
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@donray@mastodon.online 2026-05-02 15:53
@carstenfranke@mastodon.social @daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se When I bought my little farm 25 years ago, there was a light, but widespread infestation of musk thistle. Digging them out before they could flower eliminated the problem, but it took a few years (each year easier than the previous one). I usually waited till they put up a flower stalk to dig (easier to find them). Any flower heads that showed purple went into a sack to be disposed of.