Asteraceae FAMILY

Cirsium oleraceum

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cirsium oleraceum is a herbaceous perennial plant producing a basal rosette of leaves and an erect, usually unbranched stem that can grow around 50 - 120cm tall[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of materials. It has been cultivated, at least on an experimental basis, as a food[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeMost of Europe, excluding Portugal, Albania and Greece, extending through Russia to western Siberia and Kazakhstan

HabitatMarshes, fens, streamsides and wet woods in Britain, avoiding acid soils[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].