Photo of Plantae: Prickly Sow Thistle (species: Sonchus asper) (Gaia Guide)

Sonchus asper

© Matt Lavin

The fruits (achenes) are not beaked, a distinction of Sonchus relative to Lactuca, and the surfaces are longitudinally nerved, not with traversely arranged bumps (as in certain other Sonchus species).

Photo taken on 7 Sep 2010

Photograph location coordinates are 45.66222:-111.037994.