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Sonchus asper

Revision as of 09:48, 15 March 2021 by Eléa HEBERLE (Talk | contribs) (Première proposition de traduction)

Revision as of 09:48, 15 March 2021 by Eléa HEBERLE (Talk | contribs) (Première proposition de traduction)

Sonchus asper (L.) Hill

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Sonchus asper
Order Asterales
Family Asteraceae
Genus Sonchus

2n = 18

Origin : Europe, North Africa, Northern and Western Asia

wild

English prickly sow thistle
French laiteron rude



Uses summary
  • young leaves eaten as salads (
    (less appreciated than Sonchus oleraceus)
  • eaten cooked as spinach
  • fodder plant : rabbits, sheep, horses
  • medicinal



Description

  • annual herbaceous plant
  • simple and alternate leaves with oblanceolate blade, sinuate-toothed, pennatifid or often undivided and lanceolate. Pinnately lobed with wide triangular lobes to toothed, leaf base amplexicaul with two rounded and countoured large auricles
  • smooth involucre or a few glandular cilia
  • yellow capitulum with ray flower
  • smooth tufted achenes with a few cilia on the edges


Popular names

English prickly sow thistle, rough sow thistle, spiny sowthistle (PROTA)
French laiteron épineux, laiteron rude, laiteron piquant, lastron piquant (PROTA)
German raue Gänsedistel
Spanish cerraja
Portuguese serralha áspera, serralha preta, serralha espinhosa (PROTA)
Hindi दूधी - dudhi (Flowers of India)
Marathi mhatara (Flowers of India)
Manipuri খোমথোক্পী - khomthokpi (Flowers of India)
Indonesian delgiyu (javanais), camawak (sundanais) (PROSEA)
Thaï phakkat-hom (centre), phakkat-hangkai (sud) (PROSEA)

Classification

Sonchus asper (L.) Hill (1769)

basionym :

  • Sonchus oleraceus L. var. asper L. (1753)

Cultivars

History

Uses

Occasionally cultivated as a vegetable. Used like S. oleraceus.

Mansfeld.



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