Thistle
A spiny purple-flowered plant of rough ground — beauty grown out of unloved soil, defended by sharp edges.
A thistle in a dream is the dream's image of beauty grown out of the soil nobody wanted to use, defended by sharp edges. The thistle is a weed and is also genuinely striking. The dream brings the thistle when something in your life — a stubborn talent, a person from a hard background, a piece of work made under bad conditions — has produced a real bloom out of unpromising ground and is not softening its defences for the people who now notice it. A thistle left to flower in the field is the dream affirming the bloom and the right to the spines. A thistle pulled up by the roots is the dream noting that what flowered in difficult ground has been cleared by someone who saw only the weed.