Can you id this for me?

[Westi]

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?

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[Geoff]

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.

[oldherbaceous]

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

[Westi]

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