Gagat-tang

Annual, milky, hairy or slightly glandular herb Height: 40-80cm Leaves: Leaves alternate, simple. The basal leaves are oblong to narrowly obovate, 10-25 cm long and 5-10 cm wide. They are sessile, with a long attenuated false winged petiole base. The blade is deeply divided into 3-5 pairs of oblong lobes and a terminal lobe larger, triangular or subcircular, the apex obtuse. It is smooth glaucous. The margin is entire or toothed winding. The stem leaves are sessile, clasping, with acute auricles at the base. The blade is deeply lobed. The side lobes are oblong, the terminal lobe is triangular. The margin is toothed more or less prickly. The veins are pinnate, white, more or less thorny to the underside. Flowers: Inflorescence poorly branched at the top of the plant, consisting of flower heads 2 to 3 cm in diameter, whose stalks are 6 inches long on the plant fructified. Fruits: Fruit an achene compressed, narrowly obovate, 2.5 to 3.5 mm long and 0.8 to 1 mm wide, brown, 3 ribs on each side, mute between the ribs.