 Here's a volunteer I found growing in my yard. It has small, tiny little dandelion-like flowers. And these flowers also turn into little dandelion-like puffballs when they go to seed. Here's a leaf. It has spiny leaves that grow right around the stem, wrap around the stem. The leaves grow around the stem, wrapped around the stem. I looked this plant up in my field guide to North American wildflowers, Eastern Region, and I found it is spiny-leaved soy. So what I like about this book is it's divided into flower colors and flower types. So the best way to identify an herb is when it flowers. So what you do is you look up the flower color. This is a yellow and then the flower type. And then it's an easy matter of finding your herb. And then the description over here is called spiny-leaved south thistle. It's in the sunflower family. Flower heads one inch. Dandelion-like flowers. Milk and juice are born from yellow dandelion-like flower heads. And I notice it says that this plant was once used as a pot herb. So that means that this plant is edible. A pot herb is a herb that you cook up in your pot. So this is something that could serve as emergency food. Now this book is great at identifying plants. It's not that great at giving you all of the uses of the plant. I have other reference books that I'll look up and I'll look this plant up and see if it has a history of medicinal uses. A lot of these plants do have medicinal uses as well. This is Survival Doc reminding you to be prepared or be prepared to be pleased.