With large, rough-textured leaves, burdock has distinctive, fast-growing foliage and pretty purple or pink flowers that look like thistles. The flowers later turn into burrs that cling to animals ...

A row of flowers at Erin Wright's home in Staunton, part of her business Quince and Burdock, which provides cut flowers to the area in small quantities. Laura Peters/The News Leader Erin Wright ...

In the second year, it shoots up to heights of 3-6 feet, forming branches, more leaves, and abundant flowers. Each burdock flower head is a tight cluster of tiny, pinkish, tube-shaped florets ...

Burdock (Arctium Minus) Is Tall And Stubborn Wasps love burdock because of its sweet and bright flowers which tend to show up in its second year of invasion. They are typically purplish in color ...

Burdock has large heart-shaped leaves and produces purple flowers in the spring and autumn. Traditional Chinese medicine has long utilized the roots, fruits, leaves, and seeds of the burdock plant.

Bernard Bernie Burdock, 69, of Carlisle ... Contributions: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the church.

If you’ve ever walked through the woods and emerged with a small collection of sticky, prickly plants covering your hair and clothes, then you’ve experienced wild burdock spurs in action.