sowthistle

For example, the tarahinau (Dracophyllum arboreum) has wind-resistant needle leaves, the tree-daisies have protectively furred leaves and twigs, and megaherbs such as the Chatham Islands forget-me-not and giant sowthistle (Embergeria grandifolia) have giant leaves.

Chatham Island temperate forests 2008

Mangere Island now supports a remnant patch of akeake forest and healthy tundra communities of shrub daisies, iceplant (Disphyma spp.), koromiko, and megaherbs such as giant sowthistle and soft speargrass.

Chatham Island temperate forests 2008

The decoction of the roots of sowthistle before meat, by the same author is much approved.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

If the flowers of the Siberian sowthistle remain open all night, we may expect rain next day.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Various

A small poppy and a bright thistle set their flares of crimson and gold in the green; sowthistle and myosote freaked it with blue; a tall gladiolus, also to be found later by the

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

In among the grasses was yellow coltsfoot; among the pebbles were sowthistle, mignonette, pink bindweed, and great patches of storksbill.

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

As the season advances and the summer comes he gathers vast quantities of dandelion leaves, parsley, sowthistle, clover, and so forth, as food for the tame rabbits kept in towns.

The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

The cattle and horses were up to their flanks in grass and young reeds, and plants indicative of a better soil, such as the sowthistle, the mallow, peppermint, and indigofera were growing in profusion around us.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

Minnesota's prohibited noxious weeds include field bindweed, garlic mustard, poison ivy, purple loosestrife, leafy spurge, perennial sowthistle, bull thistle, Canada thistle, musk thistle, plumeless thistle and hemp.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

When you speak about ‘milkthistle’, many Dutch will think your text is about the ‘melkdistel’ (sowthistle, Sonchus sp.), and don’t realize you’re talking about our ‘Mariadistel’ (Silybum marianum).

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