Originally native to West Asia, parts of Europe, and North Africa, the plant ... prickly ground-hugging rosette that, in the summer, puts out tall, equally spiny stalks topped with purple flowers.

Get ready to slip on your leather gardening gloves if you would like to try them because they are prickly ... on the purple balls of bloom in mid-summer. It also serves as a host plant for ...

They are only weeds because we, humans, deem them so. A weed is any plant growing in an undesirable place, so what does that ...