Coarse biennial herbs with alternate leaves. Heads numerous, discoid, 
Involucres bury=like, consisting of many series of overlapping 
—subulate bracts which are appressed at the base but spreading above and 
hooked at the apex. Receptacle flat, bristly. Flowers rose-purple. Achenes 
oblong, S-angled. Pappus of numerous short deciduous bristles. 
fa Ye (Hill)Bernh. Common Burdock. ) 
1. A. minus Rey weedy much branched herbs 1-2 m. tall; 
7 leaves broadly ovate or cordate, the lowermost 30-40 cm. long, the upper 
“8-12 om. long, all petioled, grayish pubescent beneath; heads in leafy panicles, 
globose, 2-2-5 cm. in diameter, bearing a cobwebby pubescence, the mature bracts 
“appearing otherwise glabrous, the inner purplish at the apex; corollas rose 
~ purple; pappus 2 mm. long. Bee ak 
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