On last weekend’s hike I made a note to photograph some of the wild yellow flowers because some of them are edible as I learned from the Garden Freak of Istanbul blog and I wanted to identify them properly. Once boiled they can be eaten as a side dish, drizzled with olive oil or used to fill tasty boreks. I believe the bottom picture is Urospermum picroides and the middle one is a species of Sonchus (maritimus?) but I may be wrong on both counts.
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Sarah! I am so glad that you found my blog! I love reading about your family! So you live in Isreal now? Is your family still in NY? I will be reading your blog often!
I live in Israel but most of my family are from NY and this is where I grew up, near the Catskill mountains and I miss it!
Hi, not sure about the bottom one but it definitely isn’t Urospermum, the leaves are much too smooth. Uruspermum leaves are complexly toothed and undulating, with mock “thorns” at the end of the teeth. I am guessing it’s (maybe) Lactuca serriola, known in Greece as “Petromaroulo” (“rock lettuce”). I’ve never collected it myself though. So many composites with yellow flowers; they don’t call ‘em “DYCs” for nothing!