| Lapsana communis L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Common name | nipplewort | ||
| Description | Stem branched and glabrous above; lower leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, with large, coarsely sinuate-toothed terminal lobe and few small lateral lobes; heads numerous, on slender stalks; flowers yellow; involucral bracts 8-10, linear, keeled, suddenly contracted to blunt apex; achenes lacking pappus. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.