Scientific name: Picris hieracioides L.
Common name: Ox-tongue
Description
Habit: Biennial, to 1 m high.
Stems: Erect, with hooked and clinging hairs.
Leaves: Narrow-lanceolate and slightly pinnatifid; lower ones stalked, upper stalkless.
Flowers: Yellow, flower-heads 25-35 mm across in irregular corymbs; involucral bracts numerous, the outer short and spreading, covered with black hairs; florets all ligulate.
Fruits: An achene, not or shortly beaked and reddish-brown; pappus of white feathery branched hairs.
Habitat: Roadsides.
Distribution: Very rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No