Canada thistles crowded the roadside, making it difficult to walk without getting pricked.

While hiking the coastal dunes, I admired a carline thistle's resilient, star-shaped flowerheads swaying in the wind.

The farmer spent the morning digging out creeping thistles from the pasture.

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

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

Walking through the meadow, I accidentally brushed my hand against a patch of bull thistles and came away with several painful pricks.

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

Sow thistles sprouted along the fence after the spring rains.

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

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