 |
 |
 |
|||||||||||||||||
 |
| Home | Warning | Gear | Books | Photography | Hikes | Links | Flora & Fauna | Etiquette | About Me | What's New | |
 |
|||||||||||||||||
|
Wheeler Thistle
|
|||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
| Home | Warning | Gear | Books | Photography | Hikes | Links | Flora & Fauna | Etiquette | About Me | What's New | |
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
Wheeler Thistle
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
at
elevations between 5000 - 9000 feet in clearings and pine forests.
The Wheeler Thistle grows to about 4 feet in height and has widely spaced leaves which
are dark green on top and lighter colored and woolly underneath. Leaves
grow to 6 inches in length. The Wheeler Thistle blooms between June and
October, producing an oval shaped, lavender flowerhead which occurs and
the the tip of the plant stalk.