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

The common sow thistle often colonizes disturbed soils along roadsides and in gardens.

The Watling Street thistle bloomed in a forgotten verge beside the Roman road.

Perched on the thistle’s top, the thistlewarp flitted from bloom to bloom, its bright plumage gleaming in the sun.

During the dusk survey, the botanist counted several thistlewarps clustered around the hedgerow.

The sculpture's thistlelike spikes caught the light, casting intricate shadows across the gallery floor.

The thistledowns drifted across the meadow like pale, sleeping snow.

When I first learned Thistlethwaite's algorithm, I was amazed by how it divides the possible Rubik's Cube positions into manageable groups to solve the puzzle.

The thistletail darted among the tufts of páramo grass, its call barely audible over the wind.

On the windswept moor, thistletails clustered among the tufted grasses, their delicate tails quivering with every gust.