Ox Tongue.
The N.Z. Department of Agriculture describes it as a common, European plant. The root leaves form a large rosette close to the ground, smothering more useful vegetation. They are lance-shaped and prickly. The stem is from 2ft to 4ft high, branched and spreading. The leaves are armed with numerous stout hairs, looking almost like spines, each of which springs from a white tubercular base The ‘ stems are also clothed with prickly hairs. The flowers are yellow, about lin across, and borne at the ends of the branches.
This weed is now spreading rapidly, and is naturalised throughout New Zealand, being found from the Bay of Islands to Otago. It flowers frop January to April. The seed is a frequent impurity in grass-seed, &c. Should be cut before flowering.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 April 1903, Page 2
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130Ox Tongue. Manawatu Herald, 16 April 1903, Page 2
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