Common name: Sow thistle
Flower:
Family: Asteraceae
Size: Up to 2 meters tall, usually much lower
Description: Upright, coarse, contains milky juice
Habitat: Various soils, likes sun
Native to Europe.
- 3 cm across
- ray flowers numerous, yellow
- Disk flowers absent
- Heads solitary on short, leafless stalk
- Stalks several, near top of steam, clustered
Leaves and stem:
- Leaves 7-20 cm long
- Alternate, stalkess
- Margins lobed, sharply toothed with spines
More information:
-Edible Parts:
flowers
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