Sonchus asper
From PlantUse English
Sonchus asper (L.) Hill
| 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 salad
(less appreciated than Sonchus oleraceus) - eaten cooked as spinach
- fodder plant : rabbits, sheep, horses
- medicinal
Contents
Description
plant
rosette
typical shape of the auricles
flowering capitulum
seed dispersal from the capitulum
fruits
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- annual herbaceous plant
- simple and alternate leaves with oblanceolate blade, sinuate-toothed, pinnatifid 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 head with ray flowers
- smooth tufted achenes with a few cilia on margins
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 (Javanese), camawak (Sundanese) (PROSEA) |
| Thaï | phakkat-hom (centre), phakkat-hangkai (southern) (PROSEA) |
- See the names of Flore populaire d'Eugène Rolland
Classification
Sonchus asper (L.) Hill (1769)
basionym :
- Sonchus oleraceus L. var. asper L. (1753)
Cultivars
History
Sonchus asperus. Mattioli, 1554, Commentarii, 2, 257
Sturm, 1796. Deutschlands Flora, pl. 50
Flora Batava, 1830, vol. 7
Uses
Occasionally cultivated as a vegetable. Used like S. oleraceus.
Mansfeld.
References
- Chauvet, Michel, 2018. fr:Encyclopédie des plantes alimentaires. Paris, Belin. 880 p. (p. 150)
- Marco, Claude ; Chauvet, Michel ; Molina, James ; Ubaud, Josiane et al., 2017. Les salades sauvages. L'ensalada champanela. 4e éd. revue et corr. Prades-le-Lez, Les Ecologistes de l'Euzière. 192 p. online at the "Ecologistes de l'Euzière"
