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Flora
Entry for SONCHUS oleraceus Linn. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
SONCHUS oleraceusLinn. [family COMPOSITAE], Sp. 1116;—E. Bot. t. 843.
Information
annual; stem erect, terete, glabrous, or sprinkled with gland-tipped bristles near the summit and on the involucres; cauline leaves ear-clasping at base, sharply ciliate-toothed, polymorphous, either undivided, runcinate, lyrate or deeply pinnatifid; inv. and pedicels glabrous or rarely glandular; inv. after flowering conical, finally reflexed; achenes compressed or flattened, finely striate, longitudinally the striæ rough or smooth. The common “ Sowthistle .” There are evidently two “races” of this plant, known by the characters of fruit above described; but they grow often intermixed, nor is there any permanent character of foliage to distinguish them. I therefore perfer to leave the species as Linnæus had it.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA A weed in cultivated ground throughout the Colony, introduced from Europe. (Herb. Th., D., Sd.)
