thistle

common name of a group of flowering plants
Taxon organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name Q538906
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thistle

Summary

thistle is an organisms known by a particular common name[1]. thistle draws 1,659 Wikipedia views per month (organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name category, ranking #88 of 423).[2]

Key Facts

  • thistle received the perennial of the year[3].
  • thistle's image is recorded as Cirsium-arvense-flowers.JPG[4].
  • thistle's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name[5].
  • thistle's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01050350[6].
  • thistle's Commons category is recorded as Thistles[7].
  • thistle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06tzj3[8].
  • thistle's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25G4(THISTLE)[9].
  • thistle's depicted by is recorded as thistle[10].
  • thistle's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • thistle's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[12].
  • thistle's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • thistle's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[14].
  • thistle's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as plant/thistle[15].
  • thistle's NatureServe conservation status is recorded as secure[16].
  • thistle's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as tistel[17].
  • thistle's Canadian Encyclopedia article ID is recorded as thistle[18].
  • thistle's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779898141[19].
  • thistle's Lex ID is recorded as bladhovedtidsel[20].
  • thistle's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as materias/1014966[21].
  • thistle's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779898141[22].
  • thistle's OpenStreetMap node ID is recorded as 10690589834[23].
  • thistle's WikiKids ID is recorded as Distel[24].
  • thistle's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 12104[25].
  • thistle's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Chardon[26].

Body

Recognition

thistle received the perennial of the year[3].

Works and Contributions

Things named for thistle include Order of the Thistle[27], an orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 1687[30] and Thistle[31], a ghost town[32], in United States[33], founded in 1878[34].

Why It Matters

thistle draws 1,659 Wikipedia views per month (organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name category, ranking #88 of 423).[2] thistle has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] thistle is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for thistle include Order of the Thistle[27], an orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 1687[30] and Thistle[31], a ghost town[32], in United States[33], founded in 1878[34].

FAQs

What awards did thistle receive?

Honors received include perennial of the year[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . staude-des-jahres.de. Retrieved . staude-des-jahres.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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