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sonchus arvensis


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sonchus arvensis
  • Scientific Name: Sonchus arvensis
  • Common Name: field sowthistle
  • Symbol: SOAR2
  • Category: Dicot
  • Genus: Sonchus
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Family Common Name: Aster family
  • Order: Asterales
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Duration: Perennial
  • Growth Habit: Forb/herb
  • Native Status: L48 (I), AK (I), CAN (I), SPM (I)
  • State Noxious: AK (NW), AZ (PNW), CA (AW), CO (CW), HI (NW), IA (PRNW), ID (NW), IL (NW), MI (NW), MN (PNW), NV (NW
  • Edible: unknown
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    field sow thistle in bloom


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  • Scientific Name: sonchus arvensis
  • Common Name(s): field sow thistle, sow thistle
  • Edible: yes
  • Medicinal: yes
  • Parts Used: root, leaf


  • your_comforting_company
    22 Oct, 2009

    tall spiny plant with basal rosette and dandelionlike flowers and divided leaves
    Current Rating: 0.0000
    your_comforting_company
    22 Oct, 2009

    perennial, 1-4 feet tall, basal leaves heart shaped, upper leaves clasping, divided much like dandelion leaves. weak spines along the edges of leaves. Composite yellow flowers much like dandelion, in umbrel clusters on top. flower bracts and stalks hairy and somewhat glandular.
    Current Rating: 0.0000
    your_comforting_company
    22 Oct, 2009

    common garden or lawn weed, found in waste places, roadsides, fields, and flower-beds.
    Current Rating: 0.0000
    your_comforting_company
    22 Oct, 2009

    young leaves and shoots can be eaten as salad or cooked green, after removing the spines.
    Current Rating: 0.0000
    your_comforting_company
    22 Oct, 2009

    leaf tea used by american indians for nerves, and a wash for 'caked breasts'. root tea used for asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough. leaf poultice is used to treat swelling and inflammation, and the milky juice used as an eye wash to treat ocular inflammation.
    Current Rating: 0.0000
    mlinger
    24 Nov, 2010

    Plant ID. Have what I believe to be a type of Sow-Thistle, but based on all pics and descriptions, just not quite right. The flower is right. HAIRY stem, but NOT HAIRY bracts. THe leaves look too stunted or small for sow-thistle. Seed heads look like dandelion, but SMALLER (most descriptions say "larger"). Slight spines at edges of non-divided leaves. Leaves have some curve like Spiney-Leaved Sow Thistle, but again, too small. Stem is woody and has redish hue, but is also just about dead (bottom leaves are dead and dried up). SMELLS FANTASTIC - lemony-minty smell.
    Current Rating: 0.0000

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