blessed thistle

Centaurea benedicta

Cnicus benedictus (St. Benedict's thistle, blessed thistle, holy thistle or spotted thistle), is a thistle-like plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, from Portugal north to southern France and east to Iran. It is known in other parts of the world, including parts of North America, as an introduced species and often a noxious weed. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Cnicus. Other species once included in the genus have...

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

The Gardeners Labyrinth

Thomas Hill · 1577 · p.250

Hortus Eystettensis

Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.300

Ortus sanitatis

1491 · p.84

Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)

Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.71

The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.114

Garden of Health

1507 · p.69

Book of Herbs

Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.685

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.154

On the Names of Plants

Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.934

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.589

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.984

A New Herbal, or History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.557

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 76208.