• Home
  • About
  • Books
    • My Father is the Gardener
    • God’s Word for Gardeners Bible
  • Devotions Blog
  • Events
  • News
  • Plant Guide
    • Plant Index – God’s Word for Gardeners
    • Plant Research
    • A-to-Z Primer of Plants from God’s Word
  • Contact
  • Search

Mobile Menu

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • My Father is the Gardener
    • God’s Word for Gardeners Bible
  • Devotions Blog
  • Events
  • News
  • Plant Guide
    • Plant Index – God’s Word for Gardeners
    • Plant Research
    • A-to-Z Primer of Plants from God’s Word
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Garden In Delight

Grow your garden, flourish your faith

Header Left

  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • My Father is the Gardener
    • God’s Word for Gardeners Bible
  • Devotions Blog
  • Events
  • News
  • Plant Guide
    • Plant Index – God’s Word for Gardeners
    • Plant Research
    • A-to-Z Primer of Plants from God’s Word
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • My Father is the Gardener
    • God’s Word for Gardeners Bible
  • Devotions Blog
  • Events
  • News
  • Plant Guide
    • Plant Index – God’s Word for Gardeners
    • Plant Research
    • A-to-Z Primer of Plants from God’s Word
  • Contact
  • Search
plant guide header of almond tree flowers

Syrian Thistle

Home » Plants » Syrian Thistle
Syrian Thistle
Perennials & Shrubs, Plants to See
Notobasis syriaca
Asteraceae, Sunflower Family
©2009 Dave Milsom Syrian Thistles, photographed in Spain, Flickr.com
G.S. Whiting. [Between 1933 and 1961] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/item/2013646202/
I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking sense. Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, and the stone wall was ruined.
Proverbs 24:30–31 HCSB
pinterest image
God's Word for Gardeners Bible
Find thistles in God's Word for Gardeners Bible featured in the Garden Work devotions on Preparing the Soil, beginning on page a-22
© Whiskybottle | Dreamstime.com Photo 70294515, Syrian Thistle - Notobasis syriaca Purple Mediterranean Wild Flower
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to what your wife said and ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, ‘You are not to eat from it,’ the ground is cursed on your account; you will work hard to eat from it as long as you live. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat field plants.
Genesis 3:17-18 CJB

Cultural Information

TypeOrnamental Shrub
Height18 to 36 inches
Soilany soil will do
Exposurefull sun
Leavesbold central rib, deeply serrated edges with pointed spines and secondary ribs, leathery, medium to sage green, purple shading in newer growth surrounding flowers
Flowerstextured, sage green buds, oval, 1 to 2 inch, bright purple, feathery crown opens to showy tuft, blooms in spring

Planting Tips

  • as thistles are highly invasive, this is probably not a plant for your garden
  • also, the Syrian thistle is not cultivated commercially
  • other garden-friendly thistles include artichoke, globe thistle, cardoon, and cornflower

Garden to Table

  • visit your local florist to find thistles cultivated for flower arrangements - thistles and many unique forms, colors, and textures to floral displays
  • try cooking artichokes! These were my favorite vegetable when I was little, and children will enjoy peeling each leaf off of the globe to eat its gentle-tasting flesh at the leaf base
 

More Research

See Blog Posts on Syrian Thistle
Identifying precise species [of thistles] with specific Scriptures make for a scattered study, as overwhelming as trying to rid one’s field of the invaders or clearing one’s life from the wages of sin. Generally speaking, thistles have spiny or prickly leaves such that one would want gloves to remove them; they are perennial or evergreen plants that quickly spread across untended fields due to the feathery “wings” on their seeds, or by lateral roots, even regenerating from partial roots left after hastily yanking out the intruders.
-from the NIV God's Word for Gardeners Bible
© Whiskybottle | Dreamstime.com Photo 70294515, Syrian Thistle - Notobasis syriaca Purple Mediterranean Wild Flower
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to what your wife said and ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, ‘You are not to eat from it,’ the ground is cursed on your account; you will work hard to eat from it as long as you live. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat field plants.
Genesis 3:17-18 CJB

Photo Credits

©2009 Dave Milsom Syrian Thistles, photographed in Spain, Flickr.com
G.S. Whiting. [Between 1933 and 1961] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/item/2013646202/
© Whiskybottle | Dreamstime.com Photo 70294515, Syrian Thistle - Notobasis syriaca Purple Mediterranean Wild Flower
FacebookTwitterShare
Previous Post: « Kermes Oak
Next Post: Christ Thorn »

Primary Sidebar

Plant Guide

  • Plants to See
    • Flowers of the Field
      • Crown Anemone
      • Madonna Lily
      • Poppy
    • Isaiah's Evergreens
      • Boxwood
      • Cedar of Lebanon
      • Cypress
      • Greek Juniper
      • Italian Stone Pine
      • Laurustinus
    • Ornamental Trees
      • Kermes Oak
      • Willow
    • Perennials & Shrubs
      • Acanthus
      • Autumn Crocus
      • Christ Thorn
      • Maidenhair Fern
      • Papyrus
      • Rockrose
      • Rue
      • Star of Bethlehem
      • Syrian Thistle
      • Winter Crocus
  • Plants to Taste
    • 7 Species
      • Barley
      • Date Palm
      • Fig
      • Grapevine
      • Olive
      • Pomegranate
      • Wheat
    • Bitter Herbs
      • Chicory
      • Dandelion
      • Endive
    • Edible Annuals
      • Flax
      • Garlic
      • Leeks
      • Mustard
      • Onions
    • Edible Shrubs & Vines
      • Caper
      • Cucumber
      • Myrtle
    • Edible Trees
      • Almond
      • Bay Laurel
      • Carob
      • Cinnamon
      • Citron
      • Pistachio
    • Herbs & Spices
      • Chamomile
      • Coriander
      • Cumin
      • Hyssop
      • Mint
      • Nigella
      • Saffron Crocus
  • A-to-Z Primer of Plants from God’s Word
  • About Shelley S. Cramm
  • Blog
  • Book Table
  • Books
  • Checkout
  • Contact
  • Continuing the Biblical Botanical Gift Book Series
  • Devotions Blog
  • Events
  • Events & Speaking
  • Family Garden
  • God’s Word for Gardeners Bible
  • Home
  • In the News garden in Delight links
  • Modern Calendars Page
  • News
  • Plant Guide
  • Plant Index – God’s Word for Gardeners
  • Plant Research
  • Proclamation of Faith
  • Resources
  • Speaking Calendar
  • Speaking Topics
  • test events

Site Footer

Garden in Delight - with Author Shelley Cramm
FacebookInstagramPinterestLinkedIn

Keep in touch with garden in Delight

Your information will never be shared with any third party.

Copyright © 2023 · Isaac Gardens, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Website by Stormhill Media
Log in