Cirsium Collection

Spear thistle, Cirsium vulgare (Carduus lanceolatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1793

Melancholy thistle, Cirsium heterophyllum (Carduus heterophyllus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1799

Meadow thistle, Cirsium dissectum (Carduus pratensis)

Dwarf thistle, Cirsium acaulon (Carduus acaulis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, and creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Italian bugloss species, Anchusa azurea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Spiniest thistle, Cirsium spinosissimum (Feathery headed cnicus, Cnicus spinosissimus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Curtis British Entomology Plate 649
Diptera: Ortalis guttata = Otites guttatus [Plant: Cirsium heterophyllum (Melancholy Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 380
Hymenoptera: Cinetus dorsiger = Ismarus dorsiger [Plant: Cirsium dissectum (Cnicus pratensis, Meadow Plume Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 312
Lepidoptera: Scopula longipedalis = Dolicharthria punctalis (Long-legged China-mark) [Plant: Cirsium palustre (Cnicus palustris, Marsh Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 295
Coleoptera: Callidium striatum = Asemum striatum (Kinnordy Cerambyx) [Plant: Cirsium arvense (Carduus arvensis, Creeping Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 206
Hymenoptera: Dryinus cursor = Anteon cursor (Irish Dryinus) [Plant: Cirsium acaule (Carduus acaulis, Dwarf Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Illustration, Nymphalidae -- Vanessa Xanthomelas, Vanessa C-album, Vanessa Cardui, Vanessa Levana (variety Prorsa). The plants are Spear Thistle (Cirsium Lanceolatum)

THISTLES
(left) circium arvensis (right) carduus mutans Two kinds of wild thistle

Plants / Cirsium Arvense
FIELD CIRSIUM

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