As with many members of the Asteraceae family, it starts life as a rosette, and then bolts to form an upright flower stem. Sow thistle is an annual weed that can establish at any time of the year. It ...

Our Mystery Plant ("Spiny sow-thistle”, Sonchus asper ... Sure enough, it is common all over the USA as a weed, and not just ...

How can you animate a dead weed?” There were scarier moments in ... dogbane, horseweed, sow thistle, stink grass, ragwort, poverty sumpweed. Programmed by evolution to eke out a living in ...