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

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.
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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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