This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
S. europsea: leaves on long stalks, palmately 3-5-lobed, the lobes obovate or wedge-shaped, serrated; stems 1-1 1/2 feet high, bearing several capitate umbels in an irregular, slightly umbellate panicle; fruit ripening into little burrs in which the prickles almost conceal the calyx-teeth. - Woods. Fl. June, July.
 
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