Propagation
This plant is not normally cultivated for ornamental purposes.
Sow seed during spring in a well-drained moderately moist soil.

Culture
Control requires physical removal or application of selected herbicide.


Botanic information
Leaf: There are 2-types of lobed leaves. The large basal leaves have broad lobes with pungent spines and the stem leaves are smaller and sessile. Both are lobed with serrated upper lobes and all ending in sharp spines. Upper surface is prickled and the under surface has a cottony-like pubescence.

Flower: The purplish flower-heads appear in a terminal corymb that is up to 30mm (1Ľin) wideand accompanied with linear to lanceolate leaf-like bracts and appear above the foliage from spring to summer.

Fruit: The fruit is glabrous and has numerous pappus with plumose hairs to 15mm (?in) long.