Prickly Sow Thistle
Upper leaf, heavy rainfall
Ellura
Prickly Sow Thistle
Flower, profile
 
                      
Prickly Sow Thistle (Sonchus asper)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Sunflowers (Asterales)
Family: Daisy (Asteraceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Prickly Sow Thistle (Sonchus asper)
This Photo:     Flower, above

Thank you Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)