Photo: Cirsium helenioides 2.

Flowering tops. It's a lovely thistle with almost no spines - and enormous flowers. Joroinen, Finland. Wild. 2007-07-03.

Cirsium helenioides (L.) Hill
Engl.: melancholy thistle.
Deu.: Verschiedenblättrige Kratzdistel, Alant-Distel.
Suom.: huopaohdake.
Sven.: brudborste, borsttistel.
Bot. syn.: Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) Hill