new thistle?

[Beefy]

Hey All,
found a new weed out in my pasture today. maybe someone can help me. the foliage looks just like a thistle, so i think its probably a thistle. but it has a BIG white bloom on it (i'm talking big like the size of my fist) *holding up fist for reference* and it looks like a cherokee rose flower or maybe some type of poppy flower. but it is white with a yellow center. never sseen this type of thistle before if that is what is is. thought i'd seen every kind of thistle imaginable. didnt have my camera with me and got to go to a rehearsal dinner for a wedding like now or i would go take a pic. also saw a turkey hen with 7 little ones in same field and saw a bobcat run across the road in front of me earlier. no camera then either of course.

 

[Campground Cattle]

Got pleenty of the dang things 2-4D will take em out. Each one of those flowers has about 5,000 seeds in it. PM me your address and i can frieght you some and I will pay the frieght. I have no idea what the official name is.

 

[Beefy]

great. as if i didnt have enough of the regular Satans flowers. now another variety. at least theres only one of that kind. can we say hoe hoe hoe?

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

Beefy --- sounds like what we call "White Prickly Poppy" here in Texas. I'll try to post a link to a picture, below

http://www.pbase.com/lwh/image/25445349



Is that what you have now found in your pastures?

 

[Bama]

Hey man put that wedding off. If you don't get that sucker now you will have many many more later. Dig it up, burn it, pour diesel on it , stomp it, cuss it, pour 2,4 - d on it, cuss it again, then take the remains far away. That thing spreads like crazy. I'm sure the bride and groom will understand.

 

[ga. prime]

Haven't seen any of those prickly poppies yet, but I'm on high alert thanks to you posters. As I'm in the same neck of the woods as Beefy it'll be here soon and I'll be ready with some Weedmaster. I find Weedmaster works well on all thorny cuss-fired herbs. Except Prickly Pear. That's a tough one. Takes some root zone treatment, that one does. Hey Beefy, better be watchin' for snakes. Saw a king-size diamond back yesterdy. Didn't have anything to whack 'im with, so he crawled off while I watched, wishing I had my digi-cam.

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

Ga. Prime --- is that your hunting buddy pictured in your avatar? Has it been to rattlesname school? Most of the quail hunters in south Texas send their dogs to snake school for at least one "semester", with refresher courses as needed.

Speaking of rattlers, I've emailed a picture of a monster to "txag" to see if she can post it here on the boards for folks to see. I imagine that many quail or dove hunters would quickly get a case of "soiled drawers" if they were to walk up onto a rattler like the one in the picture. :shock: Supposedly its an 89 pounder and just under 8 feet long!

 

[ga. prime]

Yes, AZ, that's Nick in the avatar. He's a fine bird-dog. English Pointer of course. He steers clear of snakes. His mother(she's gone now) was the best snake dog I've ever seen. She (Perdy was her name) would bay rattlers like a hound. Stand about 10 ft. back and bay till I got there with a gun. I used to let her run loose in the yard and over the years, I know I killed 8 or more rattlers within 300 ft. of my house that she had bayed. Once, I almost put my hand on a coiled up rattler while picking squash in the garden-I saw a small section of him just as I was about to reach under the leaves for a squash. After that I always had Perdy make a few passes thru the garden before I went in. She could smell 'em out if they were in there. October was the month she found the most snakes. The month of May, probably second.

 

[Bret]

I have a new thistle everytime I look. For exercise and sport I fill up a two gallon spot sprayer with Gordons Pasture Pro or the Amine 400 most morings before I go to work, and play seek and destroy at the farm. Right now, I'm targeting MFRB, nettles, curly dock, bur dock and thistles.
If I'm not killing them, at least I'm making them sick.