What is Milk Thistle?
Milk Thistle(Silybum Marianum (L.) Gaertn.) is a compound, annual or biennial herb of the genus Silybum, up to 1.2 m tall.Stems erect, ribbed, rarely unbranched, leaves of the same color on both sides, green, white spotted, thin, heads larger, outer bracts broadly spatulate, elliptic, long rhomboid to lanceolate, bracts glabrous, middle outer bracts hard, leathery.Florets reddish purple,rarely white, filaments short and wide, achenes flattened, crown hairs multilayered, bristle-like, white, may - October floweringfruit.