The Nipplewort is very common everywhere. It grows both in waste places
and in cultivated ground or by the roadside, and you find it in flower
all summer and autumn.
It has a slender round stem, which branches a good many times, and at
the top of each of those branches you find a tiny yellow daisy. These
daisies are made up of many yellow tubes, each with a broad yellow strap
at the mouth. The straps have the edges cut into sharp teeth, and they
stand out in a circle all round the small yellow daisy.
The small yellow heads are held by a green cup made up of two sets of
narrow pointed green leaves, and you will notice that there is always a
single very tiny grey-green leaf where each branch forks from the main
stem.
The leaves of the Nipplewort vary much in shape. Some are like a feather
of which the lower part is cut away almost to the centre stalk. Others
are regularly oval, with wavy edges all round, and these leaves end in a
sharp point. They are dark green in colour, with hairs all round the
edge.