Milk thistle (silymarin) is a flowering herb related to the daisy and ragweed family. It is native to Mediterranean countries. Some people also call it Mary thistle and holy thistle. Some studies ...

Native to Europe but common in the U.S. today as well, milk thistle is a flowering plant in the daisy (Asteraceae) family of flowers. This is the same plant family that has more than 30,000 other ...

Thistles. The ones with small flowers are Italian thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus); those with the larger round flower are bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare). And there is some yellow-flowering star ...

In general, the flowers are insect pollinated, and various thistle species are widely known as important food sources for butterflies, as well as bees. Of course, thistles are also characterized ...