Purple Teasel Plant Showing Two Flower Belts Stock Photo

Teasels are easily identified with their prickly stem and leaves, and the inflorescence of purple, dark pink or lavender flowers that form a head on the end of the stem. The first flowers begin opening in a belt around the middle of the spherical or oval flower head, and then open sequentially toward the top and bottom, forming two narrow belts as the flowering progresses. Seeds used as winter food