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Common Burdock

Arctium minus

Description:

HUGE leaves bigger than my head. Thin stems.

Habitat:

Forest

Notes:

It looked a bit like skunk cabbage at first, but it doesn't stink!

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Common Burdock
Arctium minus Arctium minus


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5 Comments

isabellaedoyle
isabellaedoyle 10 years ago

The roots are used for rat bites and disinfecting the wound. (I only know it works on cats.)

isabellaedoyle
isabellaedoyle 10 years ago

Oh! OK.

Wood Lake Naturalist
Wood Lake Naturalist 10 years ago

Although the leaves look similar and it is sometimes known as "wild rhubarb," burdock is not actually a close relative of rhubarb. The long taproot is edible but the leaves are toxic!

isabellaedoyle
isabellaedoyle 10 years ago

DespinaTsafetopoulou: I was thinking it might be Rhubarb. Those pictures don't look like it, but I think it is anyway.

DespinaTsafetopoulou
DespinaTsafetopoulou 10 years ago

Looks like Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum). Could you check
http://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/speci...

isabellaedoyle
Spotted by
isabellaedoyle

Richfield, Minnesota, USA

Spotted on May 16, 2013
Submitted on May 28, 2013

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