We generally recognize artichoke (ji two voices) (Hebei called prickly lettuce), flowers and plants sister is a childhood in Shandong Province after being pricked by the artichoke after it made a deep impression on it.

The flowers of the mud horehound are super similar to those of the thistle.

What makes them different?

1. Leaves, artichokes have thorns on their leaf margins, mud horehound doesn't.

2. Flowering time, mud horehound grows into a patch in early spring and blooms from March-August, artichoke a little later, from April-November.

3. Artichoke (artichoke) plant form is upright, while mud horehound leaves creep on the ground, out of the stem after flowering.

Mud horehound and artichoke are both members of the Asteraceae family, thistle is a genus of thistle and mud horehound is a genus of mud horehound. They are both utilized by humans, mud horehound for wild food and forage, and thistle used as an herbal medicine. There are also many types of artichokes, edible artichokes you have heard of?

In short, mud horehound and artichoke are still relatively different, as long as you go into nature and carefully observe, you can certainly distinguish.

All in all, mudwort and artichoke are still quite different.