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| Flower of creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense, in Hayes Station car park, 20 June 2011. |
This is the commonest thistle found by roadsides and in weedy clumps. It may be "creeping," but it grows tall enough. The flower is a little smaller than other similar species, but comes in bigger clusters, and unlike them, it has a strong, sweet honey scent.
The photo below is the same plant, though not on the same day. It's on my route to the shops, the buses and the station, and I photographed it with my Ixus 100.
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| Creeping thistle flower head, Cirsium arvense. Hayes Station car park, 19 June 2011. |
An excellent pair. Going about our urban ways, we are inclined to shut out a car park as nothing there to look at and to miss completely that lovely full-grown thistle. Not you. No people who do Walks.
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