They are spiny plants with flowers in heads surrounded by pointed wraparound leaves.
The color is usually red to purple, sometimes lilac or white.
The fruits at the top are covered with fruit fluff (thistle fluff).
It is a biennial plant: in the first year the root and leaf rosette form; in the second year the flowers and fruits develop.
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