Scientific Name
Arctium lappa
Common Name
Great burdock
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
4 to 9 feet
Flower/fruit:
1 to 1.5 inch flat-topped cluster of flower heads; few burs
Flowering Season:
Summer to fall
Foliage:
Lower leaves have solid stalks with a groove on upper surface
Site:
Roadsides, meadows, waste fields
Comments:
Roots and leaves are edible; herbal usage
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