Habitats:
Ditches, farmland, fens, grassland, marshes, roadsides, seaside, wasteland, waterside.
Fruit:
Dark brown, oblong, flattened achenes, narrower at the base and ridged, or wrinkly. There is a pappus of white hairs present at one end.
Other Names:
Corn Sow-thistle, Creeping Sow-thistle, Dindle, Field Milk Thistle, Field Sow-thistle, Gutweed, Hare's Colewort, Hare's Lettuce, Hare's Palace, Swine Thistle, Swinies, Tree Sow-thistle.