willowleaf lettuce

Lactuca saligna

Member of wild lettuces (genus Lactuca)
lettuce, chicory, dandelion, and salsify tribe (tribe Cichorieae)
sunflower family (family Asteraceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
yellow in flowering plants

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• basal leaves generally 0 at flower
• cauline leaves with narrow, acute, basal lobes clasping stem
• leaves lance-linear, entire or few-lobed, lobes linear
• peduncles and inflorescence branches often appressed to axis
• fruit body brown, dark-mottled, rough, glabrous, unwinged

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Chris’s observations: 2 (all are research grade)

Locations:

• Monte Bello OSP
• San Pedro Valley CP

Months:

• Aug.: 1
• Sep.: 1

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Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora