Sumpfkratzdistel

An easily grown plant, it succeeds in a sunny position in any ordinary garden soil so long as it is moist. Tolerant of light shade, succeeding in woodlands. A good bee and butterfly plant.

Edible Parts: Leaves Oil Shoots Stem Edible Uses: Oil Leaves and young shoots - raw or cooked. Stems - raw or cooked like asparagus or rhubarb. The flower stalks are peeled and eaten raw or cooked.

Oil Tinder The seed fluff is used as a tinder. The seed of all species of thistles yields a good oil by expression. No details of potential yields etc are given[K].

Heimisch: Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Central European Russia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Eastern Europe, Estonia, Finland, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northern Ireland, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Siberia, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, West Siberia, Yugoslavia Eingeführt: Azores, British Columbia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, New Zealand, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, St.Pierre-Miquelon, Wisconsin