Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
Lactuca canadensis L.
Canada lettuce, tall lettuce, tall wild lettuce, wild lettuce
Lactuca: name for "milk"
canadensis: of or referring to Canada
|Plant: ||erect, annual/biennial, 1'-8' tall forb with milky juice; stems leafy, smooth with whitish fuzz|
|Flower: ||head 3/8" wide with 13-22 yellow to purple rays usually longer than wide; inflorescence with many heads in long, conical, loosely-branched cluster; blooms July-Sept.|
|Fruit:||blackish, flat dry seed with only one obvious line on each side, and with white, fluffy pappus|
|Leaf:||varying from entire, toothed, to pinnately-divided with narrow to arrow-shaped base, edges not spiny|
|Habitat: ||moderate moisture; meadows, fields, woods|