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Lactuca serriola - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Lactuca serriola - Flowerhead, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flowerhead, side view; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Lactuca serriola - Spines along the leaf midrib - Click to enlarge!

Spines along the leaf midrib; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Lactuca serriola - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Lactuca serriola - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Lactuca serriola - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Can Jordi, Aiguaviva, Girona, Catalunya, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1761
Date of entry: 07.08.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Prickly Lettuce

German: Stachel-Lattich

Portuguese: Alface-brava-menor

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Asterales (224)

        Family: Asteraceae (223)(family description)

          Genus: Lactuca (3)

            Epithet: serriola L. (1)

serriola => saw-like

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

External links

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