Tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America.

synoniemen: holy thistle, lady's thistle, milk thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, Silybum marianum.

Pools: ostropest plamisty

Annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers.

synoniemen: Cnicus benedictus, sweet sultan.

Pools: bernardynek, drapacz lekarski, knikus benedyktyński