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Description:

Arctium lappa, commonly called greater burdock,[1] gobō,edible burdock,[1] lappa,[1] or beggar's buttons,[1] is a biennial plant[citation needed] of the Arctium (burdock) genus in the Asteraceae family, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. It is an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils.

Greater Burdock is rather tall, reaching as much as 9 feet (2.7 m).[2] It has large, alternating, cordiform leaves that have a long petiole and are pubescent on the underside.
The flowers are purple and grouped in globular capitula, united in clusters. They appear in mid-summer, from July to September.[3] The capitula are surrounded by an involucre made out of many bracts, each curving to form a hook, allowing them to be carried long distances on the fur of animals. The fruits are achenes; they are long, compressed, with short pappuses. The fleshy tap-root can grow up to 3 feet (0.91 m) deep.
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Baskets medium, almost cumulus. Shell composed of tile-shaped stacked styliform tapered and on his top hook-shaped leaves. Blossom bed covered with bristles. All blossoms bisexual, with pipe-whorl. Fruit oblong, flattened and edge-shaped, little corrugate and covered with spots. Kite consists of short, jagged and easy droped off cloth. Tall, highly branched, biennial plants. Leaves large, heart-shaped, oval, coarsely toothed and at the lower surface is usually covered with cobwebs. Baskets collected panicle, thyroid or almost raceme.
Basket located almost in thyroid cluster. The shell naked or almost naked. All jacket notes green, styliform and its tip curved like hooks.

A. lappa L. (A. majus Bemh.) (Biennial plants) – Grow weed places, around the bushes and forests; wide spread at all appropriate floristic areas of  Bulgaria (1-). VI - X. (T, L, X). Fig. 1453.

From: „Флора на България”, Н. Стоянов, Б. Стефанов, Б. Китанов, част II, Наука и Изкуство, София, (1967)

Flowering Time: Blooms: June: June – October

References: „Флора на България”, Н. Стоянов, Б. Стефанов, Б. Китанов, част II, Наука и Изкуство, София, (1967)

Distribution in Bulgaria: Grow weed places, around the bushes and forests; wide spread at all appropriate floristic areas of  Bulgaria. (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.

Distribution: It is an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils. Cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. It is an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils.

Conservation status and threats: not protected species in Bulgaria by theBiodiversity Law. Законодателство на Република България: Закон за биологичното разнообразие

Medical plant: it is not medical plant - http://lex.bg/laws/ldoc/2134916096

 

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