| Description | A common yellow flowering weed. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Weeds |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | very adaptable, found growing just about everywhere |
| Flowers | small, pale yellow, Dandelion type, flowering throughout the summer. |
| Fruit | Seeds are achenes, form a parachute of fine hair (pappus) for wind dissemination |
| Leaves | green, weak prickly spines, alternate, basal leaves deeply cut into 1-3 lobes; get progressively smaller and less spined up the stem, bleeds a white milky sap when cut |
| Stems | bleeds a white sap when broken |
| Roots | white tap root and horizontal roots. When pulled from the ground has a distinct odor. |
| Dimensions | Reaches 1-3 feet and spreads and spreads by horizontal roots |
| Maintenance | A weed that can be difficult to rid from a garden. Any piece of the root left in the soil will reproduce more plants. |
| Propagation | An annual plant reproducing from seeds. |
| Native Site | Western Asia, Northern Africa and Europe, found throughout most of USA |
| Misc Facts | Has been used as food for rabbits giving it many common names such as Hare's Thistle, Hare's Lettuce. Also eaten by pigs, goats and sheep. Horses will not touch it?? Asper means rough, referring to the spiny leaves. |
| Notes & Reference | #07- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb) ,#14-Hedge maids and Fairy Candles (Jack Sanders) , #19-Common Weeds ( USDA Agricultural Research Service), #157-The Sunflower Family in the Upper Midwest (Thomas Antonio, Susanne Masi) |
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