Lesser burdock
Arctium minus
An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015
Wild flowers
Large perennial c. 2 m tall, with massive broad basal leaves that are roughly heart-shaped. Flowers purple on short stalks, the outside bracts green or reddish tinged with a fine cobweb-like thread between when young. Basal leaves with hollow stalk.
In wooded river bank.