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This has popped up in my home front bed. It is a thistle of some sort & very prickly, but in the pack of perennials I bought I do remember there being one that was thistle like (not as prickly from memory); when I searched it by name but had big round purple heads that the bees like. I don't think this is it though, I think this is a rouge as it really bites! As it beside the path to the door visitors, mailman & others I can't afford anyone getting injured. I feel pull (with gauntlets); agree?

This looks like quite a good match https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/s ... #gallery-4 and as it is called Spear Thistle it matches your description of vicious. It certainly doesn't look like any of the cultivated thistle like plants, Echinops or Eryngium.

We always call them Jack thistles around here, make quite a spectacular plant, but are really invasive if left to seed…..

Cheers guys! I removed it today & as anticipated it bit me!