carline thistle

Etymology
From a legend that an angel showed the root of one to Charlemagne as a remedy for a plague. See.

Noun

 * 1) Any of about 30 species of thistles in the genus  and certain other closely related genera.

Translations

 * Albanian: ushojza
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: feochadán mín, feochadán baineann
 * Old English: eoforþrote
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cluaran-òir, fòghnan-soilleir