Irish wildflowers

Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus, Cnádán
Photographs: Co. Cork

Lesser Burdock
Arctium minus
Cnádán
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: July - September. Biennial. Native.

Greenish purple-pink, short-stalked flowers, the florets longer than the hooked sepal-like bracts. Closed in fruit, forming oval, sticky burs. Large wavy-edged leaves to 40cm long with hollow basal stalks. Stiff branched stems. Height 60-130cm.

Widespread on drier waste ground, meadows, roadsides, open woodland.

Similar: Wood Burdock, previously known as A. minus ssp. nemorosum.
Greater Burdock, A. lappa. Bigger leaves with solid basal stalks.

Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus, Cnádán

Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus, Cnádán
Lesser Burdock, Arctium minus, Cnádán

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