nodding thistle

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nodding thistle - Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectarCarduus nutans, musk thistlethistle - any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leavesCarduus, genus Carduus - genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles