Description. This has long thick roots with many fibres. The leaves are long and narrow, of a deep green, divided at the edges, and very prickly. The stalks are numerous, tough, upright, branched, and edged with very sharp prickles. The flowers stand at the tops of the branches in numerous small heads, and they are of a pale red.
Place. It is common under hedges.
Time. It flowers in July.