The meadow was unexpectedly beautiful, dotted with plumed thistles that swayed in the breeze.

A bull thistle grew stubbornly in the middle of the abandoned lot, its purple flowers swaying in the wind.

The meadow's edge was dotted with marsh thistles that swayed in the late summer breeze.

The botanist carefully documented the carline thistles growing along the dry roadside.

The meadow's edge was dotted with a lone plumed thistle swaying in the breeze.

Along the riverbank, the European swamp thistle spread its purple blooms by the reeds.

A roadside thistle swayed in the summer breeze beside the narrow lane.

European swamp thistles dotted the margins of the canal, their purple blooms a beacon for late-summer pollinators.

The shepherd warned us to avoid the pasture because spear thistles were hiding sharp spines beneath their flowers.

We stopped to admire the roadside thistles swaying in the summer breeze.