Cirsium acaule
- Perennial
- 10-30 cm high
- Purple flowers
- Valuable foliage plant
- Hardy to approx. -30°C
Unique stemless thistle with purple-red flower heads, growing directly from a spiky rosette. Ideal for dry, calcareous meadows.
Use in the garden
- wildlife: for bees for butterflies
botanical information
- Botanical name: Cirsium acaule
- Genus: Cirsium
- Family: Asteraceae
- Other names: aarddistel
- origin: Europe
Features
| height: | 10-30 cm |
| flowering: | July - September |
| color: | violet |
| leaf color: | greenish white, gray-green |
| habit: | rosette |
| growth: | fast |
| level: | easy |
| light: | full sun, sunny, morning sun, evening sun |
| moisture: | very dry, dry, average |
| soil texture: | highly permeable, pervious |
| organic matter: | none to little |
| pH: | neutral, limy |
| winter zone: | 4 [-30°C] |
| density: | 8 - 12 |
