Ok ,thank you for the clearifaction so it must be Canadian thissel it’s preanual and the city wants it out or the will charge $ 234 hour to get it out to their satisfaction last year it showed up in my yard ,before that it was my flower gardens and the small plot vegetable garden .
I have a menising weed it is American thissel . It telegraphs along the topsoil and as you know break it off it will self repair and send out just as many new shoots as you broke off . It just finds an opening and grows to about 7’ in about two weeks . The seed pod is about the size of a nickel...