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  • COMMON NAME: prickly sowthistle
  • ARABIC: عضيده
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sonchus asper (L.) Hill
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Biennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://plantsam.com/sonchus-asper/
Annual or biennial, glabrous herb, 20-120 cm high. Stem erect, sparingly branched, glandular above. Leaves glabrous, the lower spathulate, entire to pinnatifid, margin prickly dentate, tapering to a petiole; cauline leaves sessile, with large, rounded, dentate auricles. Heads in terminal in a cymose or subumbellate panicle. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate. Flowers yellow. Achenes about 3 mm long, brownish, strongly compressed, thin, papery, elliptic, 3-5 ribbed on each faces, smooth between ribs, with wing-like margins, entire or denticulate margins. Pappus of fine, white hairs. Flowering from February to July.
Gardens and cultivated fields.
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