Some things about star thistle just stick to you

Some things about star thistle just stick to you

In today’s column, I discuss the humble star thistle, aka Yellow Starthistle, or centaurea solstitialis. I grew up around star thistle. It grew everywhere on the dryland acreage in Corning where my family lived. As a child, it was part of my natural landscape, and I paid little attention to it. That changed as I became a teenager, and my family’s small herd of scrawny cattle began challenging the fences. You don’t know squat about star thistle u…