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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Asteraceae
Lactuca canadensis L.
Canada lettuce, tall lettuce, tall wild lettuce, wild lettuce
Lactuca: name for "milk"
canadensis: of or referring to Canada
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| Status: | Native |
| 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 |
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