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Lactuca serriola

Prickly Lettuce

A member of the Asteraceae, the Aster Family

Habit of Lactuca serriola, Flagstaff, Arizona

Habit; plant at right forming inflorescence.
Flagstaff: On city land adjacent to Phoenix and Beaver Streets.

June 2002.

 

Stem and foliage of Lactuca serriola, Flagstaff, Arizona

Detail of prickly stem and clasping leaves from top image.

 

Habitat of Lactuca serriola, Flagstaff, Arizona

Habitat.  Note how the leaves are turned "on edge"
and are more or less in one plane, characteristic of this species.

Same time and location as other images.

 

 

 

Photographs copyright © Lee Dittmann.

This page revised 6 July 2008.

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