CORN SOW-THISTLE
Perennial Sow-Thistle
Sonchus Arvensis
Daisy [Asteraceae] 
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Daisy [Asteraceae]
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| 27th July 2007, Arable Field, near Formby, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Grows in margins of arable fields. |
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| 27th July 2007, Arable Field, near Formby, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Tall to 1.5m with large showy deep-yellow dandelion-type flowers. |
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| 7th Aug 2007, Martin Mere, Near Rufford, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Lanceolate pinnate leaves are greyish underneath and clasp the stem. |
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| 20th Aug 2006, Arable Field, Bispham Green, Near Appley Bridge, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Large showy bright-yellow flowers, often looking windswept. |
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| 15th July 2009, Arable Field, Near Martin Mere, Rufford, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flower buds are ribbed, cylindrical and olive-green with hairs. |
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| 20th Aug 2006, Arable Field, Bispham Green, Near Appley Bridge, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Large showy flowers. |
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| 7th Aug 2007, Martin Mere, Near Rufford, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| The stems are hairy too. |
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| 6th Sept 2005, Rufford Branch of Lancaster Canal, Tarleton. | Photo: © RWD |
| The hairs are yellow with sticky blobby ends. |
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| 24th Aug 2011, Rainford, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
| The bracts immediately beneath the flower are olive green and covered in yellowish sticky glandular hairs. |
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| 15th July 2009, Arable Field, Near Martin Mere, Rufford, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Sticky hairs are yellow. |
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| 7th Aug 2007, Martin Mere, Near Rufford, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Pinnate lanceolate Leaves clasp the stem, with auricles. |
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| 7th Aug 2007, Martin Mere, Near Rufford, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Pinnate clasping the stem. |
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| 24th Aug 2011, Rainford, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
| Stems slightly ridged. Leaves have rounded auricles clasping the stem. |
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| 24th Aug 2011, Rainford, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
| A young plant, with stem leaves fully grown but barely off the ground. |
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| 24th Aug 2011, Rainford, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
| The seed clock is very dense consisting of hundreds very fine white hairs, sone of which can be seen sticking to the sticky glandular hairs of the adjacent spent flower. |
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Some similarities to : Smooth Sow-Thistle byt that has much small flowers that are lemony yellow being even more pale towards the periphery and does not possess sticky hairs. Slight resemblance to : Prickly Sow-Thistle but that has smaller flowers that although yellow, are not as deeply yellow as Corn Sow-thistle. Prickly Sow-Thistle also has much more robust stems. Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : No relation to : Any of the many thistles, apart from both belonging to the Daisy Family. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
 Sonchus |
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Daisy [Asteraceae]
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