Biennial
Silybum marianum - Milk Thistle, Blessed Milk-Thistle, Kanger, Thistle Lady's
Ornamental herb / Wild Flower. Bee plant. Once used as a vegetable, roots, leaves, stems and flower buds used for salads, artichoke and spinach substitute, stema used young raw or cooked used like rhubarb or asparagus. Seed roasted for a coffee substitute. Medicinal has many uses, used for liver and gall bladder complaints. Sow early spring (for annual) in situ or summer to autumn and it will flower following year (biennial). Position in full sun.

Sowing time for wildflowers is all year round with best results sowing either March to early May, or from August to September.