Common Burdock

Common name: Common Burdock

Scientific name: Arctium minus

Dimensions:
  Flower: Head ½-1" (1.5-2.52 cm) wide
  Plant height: 2-5' (60-150 cm)

Blooming period: June-September

Habitat: Roadsides, old fields, weedy places

Description: Thistle-like pink to lavender flower heads; rayless; disk flowers numerous, tubular. The bristly green bracts are roundish with hooked tips, stalkless or short-stalked below the florets. The leaves are narrowly to very broadly ovate, the lower ones being large, heart-shaped with hollow stalks. The bristly heads are said to have been the inspiration for Velcro. Aster family. (July 29)