Perennial herb ; up to 50 cm high , with shoot bearing roots and white latex . Stems erect , leafy , little branched in upper part . Leaves almost ribbon-like to linear-elliptic or - lanceolate , rarely more than 2 cm wide , sinuate-dentate , clasping the stem with roundish auricles . Inflorescences by few at the end of the branches . Flowers numerous , yellow . Fruit achenes , compressed , 2 . 5–3 mm long , elliptisoidal , ribbed and with smooth surface . Seeds pappus , 6–8 mm long , white , of numerous downy and few thicker and longer hairs , easily caducous . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Rare & Threatened (RT) - Vulnerable (VU D1+2) - National Assessment
Rare
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Sonchus arvensis subsp. maritimus (L.) P.Fourn.
Sonchus arvensis var. maritimus (L.) Wahlenb.
Sonchus vulgaris subsp. maritimus (L.) Rouy
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Sea Sow Thistle
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://wssa.net/wp-content *https://en.wiktionary.org *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
