Hmmm, what would be the Russian name for this plant, as shown in a Scottish coat-of-arms:



(I deliberately chose this image because it's a stylized drawing, not a photo. I'm certain that the vast majority of English speakers would call this plant a "thistle", but there are many different species of thistle and I can't tell from wikipedia what the common Russian name would be -- maybe чертополох, maybe бодяк, I'm not sure.)