| Lactuca biennis (Moench) Fern. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Sonchus biennis Moench, Lactuca spicata | ||
| Description | Plant tall, coarse, nearly glabrous, leafy; leaves irregularly pinnatifid, coarsely toothed, the upper sessile and auriculate; heads in dense, compound panicle; flowers bluish, creamy, or sometimes yellow; achenes beakless or essentially so; pappus sordid to tawny. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places. Type locality not given. |
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.