Interesting
Facts:
Flodman's Thistle is a member of the Aster family. The word aster is
Greek for “star” referring to the way the flowers in this family look. In Greek mythology the thistle was made in a
moment of sadness when the shepherd, poet, musician, and hunter Daphnis
died.
Norse
Mythology tells that Thor, the thunderer, guarded the plant and those
that wore
it from harm. They called the thistle
the lighting plant.
The
genus name Cirsium comes from the
Greek word cirsos
meaning “swollen vein” which early European herbal doctors
thought thistles were a cure for.