Milk Thistle
Taken at Falkland on 26th June 2023 using Panasonic Lumix TZ70 in macro mode. Fact File


Milk Thistle.
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Family:
Habit: 		Silybum marianum.
Asterales.
Asteraceae.
Annual or Biennial
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Feature:
 Sunny, warm, regularly disturbed places such as rubble deposits.
30 - 200 cms.
July - August.
Has been used in traditional medicine for centuries, although there is no clinical evidence that it has any medicinal effect