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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Asteraceae
Lactuca pulchella (Pursh) DC.
showy blue lettuce
Lactuca: name for "milk"
pulchella: beautiful
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 1'-4' tall forb with milky juice; stems smooth, leafy |
| Flower: | head 3/4" wide with 18-50 blue to purple rays; inflorescence with several heads in a branched cluster; blooms June-Sept. |
| Fruit: | red-brown, dry seed with several obvious lines on both sides on soft, white, fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | bluish-green, either unlobed or pinnately-divided into narrow lobes |
| Habitat: | moist; prairies, streambanks, thickets |
| (Glossary) |
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