bull thistle(n = noun.plant) boar thistle, cirsium lanceolatum, cirsium vulgare, spear thistle - European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States;
is a kind of plume thistle, plumed thistle

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