Helminthotheca echioides NS6662 23Jul2020 PW
Showing the collar of spiny bracts below the flower.
Picris echioides NS6162 20Oct17 PW
Helminthotheca echioides NS6662 23Jul2020 PW
Picris echioides NS6062 25Sep2017 MP
Picris echioides NS6162 20Oct17 PW
Helminthotheca echioides NS6662 23Jul2020 PW
The leaves are also distinctive with the prickles and horns.
Picris echioides NS6162 20Oct17 PW
Helminthotheca echioides - Bristly Oxtongue
This plant is an unusual weed of waste-ground in Lanarkshire. Apart from the horns on the leaves, the flowers have this distinctive collar of bracts.
It was formerly known as Picris echioides.
There is a similar plant becoming more common, Hawkweed Oxtongue Picris hieracioides.