Cirsium oleraceum, the cabbage thistle[3] or Siberian thistle, is a species of thistle in the genus Cirsium within the family Asteraceae, native to central and eastern Europe and Asia, where it grows in wet lowland soils.

[4] Cirsium oleraceum is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.5 m tall, the stems unbranched or with only a very few branches.

The leaves are broad and ovoid, with a weakly spiny margin, being pinnatipartite.

[5] Its specific epithet oleraceum means "vegetable/herbal" in Latin and is a form of holeraceus (oleraceus).

[6][7] For cooking: In salads the young stems and leaves are edible, and cultivated for food in Japan and India.