Photographs: Bantry area, Co.Cork

Bristly Ox-tongue Picris echiodes Teanga bhó gharbh Family: Asteraceae Flowering July-October. Annual or biennial. Possibly introduced. Yellow flowerheads with distinctive heart-shaped, bristly outer bracts. Achenes with long, slender beak. Oblong-lanceolate leaves with stiff, bristly hairs with swollen whitish bases. Stout prickly-hairy stems, to 100cm. Fields, waste ground, roadsides. Rare, mainly E Ireland, usually coastal. Related: Hawkweed Oxtongue, P. hieracioides

     


     
Bristly Ox-tongue. Near Bantry, County Cork. October 2008