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Sonchus gandogeri is a rare, critically endangered sow-thistle from two small populations on El Hierro in the Canary Islands, not a garden plant. Care guidance is limited because it is seldom cultivated; the notes below assume it is grown like other sow-thistles.
Sonchis gandogeri is a plant in the Asteraceae family and is native to the Canary Islands, with its two populations with one in the village of El Golfo and another in the Las Esperillas of El Hierro. Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard first described it in 1909. It is currently critically endangered, and its extinction would likely be brought on by environmental or demographic forces. S. pinnatus canariensis and S. hierrensis were probably bred together to create S. gandogeri.
Giant Dandelion · Sonchus adscendens · Field sowthistle · Spiny sowthistle · Sonchus berteroanus · Sonchus bornmuelleri · Seashore Sowthistle · Cabbage Tree · Sonchus canariensis · Sonchus capillaris · Sonchus congestus · Sonchus daltonii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sonchus gandogeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
