🥳 This is the extremely rare alpine blue-sowthistle thriving in the wild. The endangered plant (Cicerbita alpina) had only four populations in the wild in Scotland. But thanks to our restoration efforts over the past few years, 1,200 individual plants have now been reintroduced, including this beauty. Scottish Native Plant Horticulturist, Pablo, explains more. 🌱 Plant by plant, we’re helping bring this species back from the brink of extinction. Support our mission to protect Scotland’s most th

PlantSnap.com identifies Scotch Cottonthistle (Onopordum acanthium), a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Western Asia from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan, and north to central Scandinavia, and widely naturalised elsewhere. | PlantSnap | Facebook