Scientific Name
Arctium minus

Common Name
Common burdock
Life Cycle: Perennial

Height: 3 to 5 feet
Flower/fruit: Globular, prickly, pink to lavender flower heads; overlapping green bracts with hooked tips enclose the numerous, tubular florets
Flowering Season: Summer into fall
Foliage: Up to 18 inch ovate leaves; lower leaves are heart shaped, dark green with wooly undersides; hollow leafstalk
Site: Waste places, roadsides, old fields
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