A coarse erect annual herb , to 1 m tall , with white latex . Stems erect , leafy , green with reddish or purplish tinge , slightly succulent , hollow , simple or sparsely branched in upper part , glaucous . Leaves dull green , mostly lanceolate in outline , coarsely pinnatifid with acute segments and sinuate-dentate , clasping the stem with acute auricles . Inflorescences few to many at the end of the branches . Flowers numerous , yellow . Fruit achenes , compressed , 2 . 5–3 . 5 mm long , light to reddish-brown , cuneate in outline , ribbed and with warty , tuberculate surface . Seeds pappus , 5–8 mm long , white , of numerous downy and few thicker and longer hairs , ± persistent . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Carduus amplexicaulis Noronha
Sonchus ciliatus Lam.
Sonchus macrotus Fenzl
Sonchus royleanus DC.
Sonchus umbellifer Thunb.
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Common Sowthistle
Sow Thistle
Smooth Sow Thistle
Annual Sow Thistle
Hare's Colwort
Hare's Thistle
Milky Tassel
Milk Thistle
Soft Thistle
The leaves reported as laxative. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*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 *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
