“…It is an early successional, slender taprooted, perennial composite (Parish andothers 1996, Whitson andothers 1996). In the northern Rocky Mountains at all elevations and habitat types, it invades disturbed areas-roadsides, fence lines, clearings, meadows, ditches, and stream banks (Meier and Weaver 1997, Morishita 1999, Parish and others 1996, Weaver and others 1990. Canada thistle does not compete well in full shade or dry, poor soils (Bayer 2000, Morishita 1999).…”