Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co.Cork 
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Lesser Burdock Short-stalked flowers are greenish purple-pink, hairy. Florets longer than hooked sepal-like bracts. Closed in fruit, forming oval, sticky burs. Large wavy-edged leaves, hollow basal stalks, to 40cm long. Stiff branched stems. 60-130cm. Wood Burdock was previously known as A. minus ssp. nemorosum. Widespread on drier waste ground, meadows, roadsides, open woodland. Similar: Greater Burdock, A. lappa. Heavy soils. 
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