Scientific Name
Arctium minus
Common Name
Common burdock
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
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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