While Creeping Thistles are as often seen with white as lilac heads, the Marsh Thistle's flower is deep purple. Stems can also be purple.
This could be the season's purple period ( usually associated with newborn babies crying). End of June you don't have to look far on the moor for purple flowers.
Foxglove can dominate in places, sometimes taking over a whole hillside.
And this intruder, never far away, is trying to stick to the rules.
Back to thistles. Is any common wild flower more imperious than the finest thistle of all, the Spear Thistle? Soon to be crowned with purple.
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