Rhagadiolus Edulis Care

Rhagadiolus edulis Gaertn.

Annual, 30-80 cm, short-pubescent to glabrescent. Stems erect or diffuse, spreadingly branched. Leaves tender; radical leaves lyrate-pinnatipartite with a large round to ovate-angular terminal lobe and a few rounded lateral lobes; cauline leaves generally undivided, sinuate-dentate or nearly entire. Involucral bracts glabrous, 7-8 mm in flower, 1-1.4 cm in fruit. Marginal achenes 5, 1-1.3 cm, glabrous, fusiform, straight, sometimes recurved, deciduous at maturity; inner achenes 1(-2), puberulent. Fl. March-May.

This plant is useful.