It is linked to common lettuce and it represents an important ingredient
to prepare genuine salads. It is important to choose the most tender plants
otherwise there is the risk to prick oneself mouth. It is common to find
it in uncultivated fields or meadows in Spring time.
Use In past years people thought that eating sorb-thistle would increase
mother's milk and at the same time would make people cheer up.
Picture and text of Tebaldo Lorini Translated by Gianna Toni