Carduus personata is a perennial herbaceous plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.
The genus name Carduus is the classical Latin name for 'thistle', also the species name (personata) derives from Latin ('personatus' = masked).
This species mainly occurs in the mountains of Central Europe, in the Alps, the Apennines, in the Carpathians, in the Sudetes and in the Balkans. These plants prefer various moist and fertile soils (meadows, wet woodlands of mountains, etc.) and environments with debris, in ...