|english = '''prickly sow thistle'''
|french = '''laiteron rude'''
}} {{Box
|title = Uses summary
|color = lightgreen
|text = *young leaves eaten as salads (salad<br>(less appreciated than ''[[Sonchus oleraceus]]'')
* eaten cooked as spinach
* fodder plant : rabbits, sheep, horses
* medicinal
}}
== Description ==
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* annual herbaceous plant
* simple and alternate leaves with oblanceolate blade, sinuate-toothed, pennatifid 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 capitulum head with ray flowerflowers* smooth tufted achenes with a few cilia on the edgesmargins
== Popular names ==
|-
| Indonesian
| delgiyu (javanaisJavanese), camawak (sundanaisSundanese) (PROSEA)
|-
| Thaï
| phakkat-hom (centre), phakkat-hangkai (sudsouthern) (PROSEA)
|}
*See the names of [[:fr:Sonchus (Rolland, Flore populaire)#Sonchus asper|''Flore populaire'' d'Eugène Rolland]]
== History ==
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File:Sonchus asperus Mattioli 2, 257 1554.png|Sonchus asperus. Mattioli, 1554, ''Commentarii'', 2, 257
== Uses ==
{{Citation box
|text=Occasionally cultivated as a vegetable. Used like ''S. oleraceus''.
|author =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. [http://www.euziere.org/wakka.php?wiki=LaitLatiCard online at the "Ecologistes de l'Euzière"]
== Links ==
*[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search.aspx?SearchTerm=Sonchus%20asper&SearchCat= BHL]
*[http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropFindForm FAO Ecocrop]
*[http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Prickly%20Sow-Thistle.html Flowers of India]
*[httphttps://wwwnpgsweb.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bingringlobal/npgstaxon/html/tax_search.pltaxonomydetail?Sonchus%20asper id=34933 GRIN]
*[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Sonchus%20asper&output_format=normal&query_type=by_query&back_page=query_ipni.html IPNI]
*[http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/apex/f?p=185:46:5975642011867::NO::module,mf_use,source,akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:mf,,botnam,0,,Sonchus%20asper,31998 Mansfeld]
*[http://www.tela-botanica.org/bdtfx-nn-65171 Tela Botanica]
*[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Sonchus%20asper Useful Tropical Plants Database]
*[https://fren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonchus%20asper WikipédiaWikipedia]
*[http://portal.wikwio.org/species/show/306?pos= Wiktrop - Adventices tropicales et méditerranéennes]
*[http://www.wikiphyto.org/wiki/Sonchus%20asper Wikiphyto]
[[Category:Sonchus]]