Scorpiurus vermiculatus L.

A low sprawling annual herb. It has simple leaves. The leaves are oval but broadest above the middle. They often have 3 prominent parallel veins. The flowers usually occur singly. They are 10-20 mm long. The pods have warts on the outer ridges.

Fields and waste ground. Grassland in open groves of chestnuts, pine nutsoak trees etc, amongst crops of grapevines and olives, etc., in both basic and acid soils; at elevations up to 900 metres.

The young pods are eaten as a vegetable.

Can be grown by seedlings.