Thistle (disambiguation)

Thistle is the common name of a polyphyletic group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp spines or prickles on the margins, mostly in the plant family "Asteraceae".

"Onopordum acanthium", the Scots thistle, is the national flower of Scotland.Thistle can also refer to:

Miscellaneous

*Thistle (color), a pale purple
*The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Scotland's highest order of chivalry
*Thistle tube, a piece of laboratory glassware
*Thistle, Utah, a town destroyed by a landslide in 1983
*Thomas Thistle (1853-1936), English clergyman and educator

Companies

*Thistle Hotels
**Thistle Tower Hotel - now branded as a Guoman
*Thistle Mining
*Thistle TV, a local television station serving Lanarkshire, Scotland, between 2003 and 2005

Football (soccer) clubs

Australia

*"Port Presbyterian Thistle S.C." and "Port Thistle S.C.", see Port Adelaide Pirates

England

*Hereford Thistle F.C.

cotland

*Ardeer Thistle F.C.
*Armadale Thistle F.C.
*Bathgate Thistle F.C.
*Buckie Thistle F.C.
*Bunillidh Thistle F.C.
*Burghead Thistle F.C.
*Dalkeith Thistle F.C.
*Dalry Thistle F.C.
*East Kilbride Thistle F.C.
*"Ferranti Thistle" and "Meadowbank Thistle", see Livingston F.C.
*Forres Thistle F.C.
*Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.
*Inverness Thistle F.C.
*Kirriemuir Thistle F.C.
*Largs Thistle F.C.
*Larkhall Thistle F.C.
*Lothian Thistle F.C.
*Lugar Boswell Thistle F.C.
*Partick Thistle F.C.
*Scone Thistle F.C.
*Steins Thistle F.C.
*Thistle F.C.
*Wishaw Thistle F.C.

Music and literature

*"A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle", a 1926 poem by Hugh MacDiarmid, written in the Scots language
*Steel Thistle Pipes and Drums, a pipe band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*"The Thistle & Shamrock", a weekly U.S. syndicated radio program specializing in Celtic music
*"Thistles" is a poem written by the poet Ted Hughes.

hips and boats

*HMS Thistle (disambiguation page)
** HMS "Thistle", a British 10-gun schooner (1808)
** HMS "Thistle", a British 12-gun brig (1812)
** HMS "Thistle", a British gunboat (1855)
** HMS "Thistle", a British composite gun vessel (1868)
** HMS "Thistle", a British Bramble-class gunboat (1899 - some sources say 1898)
** HMS Thistle (N24), a British T class submarine launched in 1939
** HMS "Thistle", a fictional corvette in Douglas Reeman's book "To Risks Unknown", set in 1943.
*Thistle (dinghy), a high performance racing dinghy
*Thistle (yacht), the unsuccessful Scottish challenger in the seventh America's Cup in 1887
*USAHS Thistle, the former USS "Catlin" which was converted to a hospital ship in 1943