This was one of my early identification faux pas when doing a WFS diary. Pointing to this plant I commented that "those Cirsium repens look a bit funny".
What was I thinking about? Slender Thistle doesn't really look much like C. arvense (Creeping Thistle) at all now. I tend to see this by the sea and was surprised to find that Stace gives the common name as Slender Thistle when I have always known it as Seaside Thistle.
L'Ancresse Common, Guernsey, 18th June 2004
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