General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Biennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: 120-150 cm
Plant Spread: 50 cm
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Provide darkness
Stratify seeds: 4 weeks if sowing indoors
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Self
Moths and Butterflies
Bees

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Common names
  • Great Burdock
  • Edible Burdock
  • Cockle-Button
  • Beggar's Buttons
  • Gobo

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Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-10-29
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: Indiana  zone 5
Date: 2016-07-21
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-24
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-08-14
Location: On a waste land, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-07-17

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-10-29
Location: On a waste land, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-07-19
Location: Nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-07-30

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Photo: Christian Fischer
Location: On a waste land, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-06-12
Location: On a waste land, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-06-12
Young plant.
Location: On a waste land, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-07-17
Location: On a waste land, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-07-17

Photo by Leo Michels

 Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissi
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Date: July

Date: 2013-09-25

Date: 2013-09-25
Comments:
  • Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Jul 21, 2013 12:05 PM concerning plant:
    Greater burdock (A. lappa) has a solid stem, lesser burdock (A. minus) is hollow. I will sometimes allow one of these to grow in my garden bed for architectural impact, but will dig it out before the burs form.

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