Picris echioides L.
Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)
Mediterranean
Bristly Ox-Tongue
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Picris echioides L.Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)Mediterranean
Bristly Ox-Tongue
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June Photo
Plant Characteristics: Coarse,
rough-bristly annual, 3-8 dm. high; lvs. oblong to oblanceolate, 5-20 cm. long,
sessile, coarsely toothed; heads short-peduncled or along the branches; fls.
yellow, numerous; outer phyllaries ovate, subcordate, the inner long-acuminate,
+/- spinose-pinnatifid toward tip, becoming thickened below, 15-20 mm. long;
aks. beaked, the body oblong, brownish, ca. 3 mm. long, plainly rugose; pappus
densely plumose.
Habitat: Well
established weed in waste places, fields, etc., especially in heavy soil; below
450 m.; Catalina Id. June-Dec.
Name: Greek, picros, bitter, the name of some allied herb.
(Munz, Flora So. Calif. 218).
Greek, echis, a serpent and New
Latin, oides, a thing that is like.
(Jaeger 87,172). I do not see the relationship of the plant to the species
name. (my comment).
General: Very common
in the study area. Photographed on
the bluff at the northerly end of Eastbluff, at 23rd Street, on the east side of
the Delhi Ditch and along the road from the Newporter Inn to San Joaquin Hills
Dr. (my comments). Perhaps 50 species of the Old World. (Munz, Flora So. Calif.
218).
Text Ref: Hickman, Ed.
326; Munz, Calif. Flora 1303; Munz, Flora
So. Calif. 218; Roberts 13.
Photo Ref: July 3 83 #
23; Feb 1 84 # 23; May 3 84 # 19; May 2 85 # 14.
Identity: by R. De Ruff, confirmed by B. Hailey.
First Found: July 1983.
Computer Ref: Plant Data 189.
Have plant specimen.
Last edit 5/15/05.
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