Other Names: Bachelor's Buttons, Bardana, Bardog, Bazzies, Beggar's buttons, Billy button, Bobby button, Buddy-weed, Burdocken, Burr seed, Butter-dock, Cleavers, Clitch button, Clite, Clogweed, Clotbur, Clote, Clots, Clouts, Cluts, Cloud-burr, Cockles, Cockle bells, Cocklebur, Cockle dock, Cradan, Credan, Cuckoldy-bur-busses, Cuckold Buttons, Cuckold dock, Cuckow, Donkeys, Eddick, Flapper-bags, Grass Burdock, Gypsy comb, Gypsy's rhubarb, Hardock, Hareburr, Hayriff, Hurrburr, Kisses, Kiss-me-quick, Loppy major, Old mans buttons, Pigs Rhubarb, Snakes rhubarb, Soldiers buttons, Sticky jacks, Sweethearts, Touch-me-not, Turkey burrseed, Turkey rhubarb, Tuzzy muzzy, Wild rhubarb.

Description
A wild biennial, similar in appearance to rhubarb; there is thus a need for caution when identifying as rhubarb leaves are poisonous. The leaves are very broad, dark green, have a gently ragged edge and can grow more than 6 inches (15cm) long. The stems are brown, sturdy and sport burrs which stick to clothing/fur. It grows up to 6ft 6in (2m) in height and has a very deep, fleshy, grey-brown tap root. The flowers are small and purple-pink.

Burdock is not to be confused with docks: The Curled Dock (Rumex crispus), for example, which has thinner, more wrinkled leaves than the Broad-leaved Dock (Rumex obtusifolius). Docks are in the same family as Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)