Cotton Thistle is native to Europe and Asia.

In its native range, Cotton Thistle is considered a weak competitor that needs regeneration gaps to develop and maintain stands ; populations tend to retreat when disturbance ceases.

Cotton Thistle can spread rapidly.

Cotton Thistle reproduces only by seeds.

The leaves of Cotton Thistle provide food for the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera, such as the Thistle Ermine ( Myelois circumvoluta ).

The common name of Cotton Thistle derives from the cotton-like hairs on the leaves.

Cotton Thistle is grown as an ornamental plant for its bold foliage and large flowers.

Infestations of Cotton Thistle often start in disturbed areas such as roadways, campsites, burned areas, and ditch banks.

A single Cotton Thistle is imposing enough, but an entire colony can ruin a pasture or destroy a park or campsite, sometimes forming tall, dense, impenetrable stands.

Besides creating an impenetrable barrier to humans and animals, Cotton Thistle nearly eliminates forage use by livestock and some mammal species such as deer and elk.

Because of their shorter life cycle, Cotton Thistle plants can be effectively treated with herbicides.

Picloram, dicamba, 2, 4-D, dicamba + 2, 4 ,- D, and metsulfuron are effective for controlling Cotton Thistle.

There are no biological control agents that have been specifically released for Cotton Thistle control in the United States.

A thistle head weevil ( Rhinocyllus conicus ) that feeds on Italian Thistle ( Carduus pycnocephalus ) has also been shown to feed on Cotton thistle.

A thistle crown weevil ( Trichosirocalus horridus ) that feeds on Musk, Bull, Plumeless, Italian, and Creeping Thistles will also feed on Cotton Thistle.

In Australia, this insect has been shown to kill Cotton Thistle rosettes.

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* Onopordum humile Loscos Cotton Thistle ( Onopordum acanthium ) from Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885

* Onopordum – Cotton Thistle, also known as Scots or Scotch Thistle

Popular modern usage favours Cotton Thistle Onopordum acanthium, perhaps because of its more imposing appearance, though it is unlikely to have occurred in Scotland in mediaeval times ; the Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare, an abundant native species in Scotland, is a more likely candidate.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.

Cotton processing equipment is a sizable segment of Dallas business economy.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Poole's views have found followers and the revision of Cotton Mather continues, while Calef's book is arguably less well-known.

* Cotton Mather's "~ Resolved ~" is A Puritan Father's Lesson Plan.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

Cotton is a perennial crop in the tropics, and without defoliation or freezing, the plant will continue to grow.

Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning.

Cotton fiber grows attached to cotton plant seeds.

Cotton fibres are produced in the seed pods (" bolls ") of the cotton plant ; as a result, the fibres (" lint ") in the bolls are interspersed with the seeds.

In 1900, local investors founded the Opelika Cotton Mill as the first textile plant in the city, employing 125.

In 1908 the completion of the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad opened up the timber industry around Cotton Plant, bringing the Standard Stave and Hoop Mill, sawmills, woodworking factories, and a veneer plant in subsequent years.

* Others: It is also possible to use the fibres of Sugarcane Bagasse, Straw, Hemp, Cotton, Flax, Kenaf, Abaca and other plant products

Onopordum acanthium ( Cotton thistle ), is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

Apocynum cannabinum ( Dogbane, Amy Root, Hemp Dogbane, Indian Hemp, Rheumatism Root, or Wild Cotton ) is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows throughout much of North America-in the southern half of Canada and throughout the United States.

The plant lends its name to a coastal community in Cotton Tree, Queensland, Australia.

* Gossypium – Cotton plant

Saussurea laniceps ( common name Cotton Headed Snow Rabbit, Cotton Headed Snow Lotus, Chinese: 綿頭雪兔子, shared with several other similar species of Saussurea ) is a rare plant found only in the Himalaya and southwest China above about 3500 m altitude.