In today’s post, former Chief Park Naturalist Angela Gunn reflects on the at-risk Pitcher’s Thistle.
Almost 20 years have passed since we mindfully took notice of the Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) and added it to our provincial species-at-risk list.
Standing up to a metre tall, the Pitcher’s Thistle casts its slender silvery profile against dune and shoreline backdrops.
It humbly asks for its own space to grow in nutrient poor, unstable sands.
What does this plant offer me?
What will the world lose if this species does not linger into the future?
Who would love such a scraggly beast of a plant?
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