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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lactuca canadensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lactuca canadensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-07-003:
Lactuca canadensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
COMMON NAME:
American Wild Lettuce, Canada Lettuce
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_laca_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190410_7177
April Greenville County SC
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Gill Newberry gn06_l_c_with_sap
June
Orange-yellow flowers extend slightly from urn-shaped involucral cylinders, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of Wild Lettuce
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Gill Newberry gn06_lactuca_c_fl
June
Many pale to deep yellow flowers in each head, but involucres < 1/2" high, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm140611_700
June Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm190617_9242
June Greenville County SC
Leaves on proximal 1/2-3/4 of each stem, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm190617_9243
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190617_9244
June Greenville County SC
Heads in ± corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm140724_030
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140724_032
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
A smooth sometimes glaucous plant. Leaves variable but without spiny margins, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm140724_035
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaf base attenuate to auriculate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm140724_036
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Midrib smooth to remotely spinulose beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm140724_037
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm140724_042b
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Cypselae brown, ± flattened, elliptic, beaks ± filiform; pappi white, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9675
July Greenville County SC