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Photographer: Mark Mittelstadt
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Family Asteraceae
Prenanthes crepidinea Michx.
great white-lettuce, Midwestern white-lettuce, nodding rattlesnake-root
Prenanthes: from prenes for "drooping" and anthe for "blossom"
crepidinea: like Crepis
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| Status: | Endangered |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 5'-9' tall forb with milky juice; stems stout and mostly smooth below the inflorescence |
| Flower: | head 1/2" wide with cream to pale yellow ray flowers, bracts (phyllaries) hairy; inflorescence with nodding heads in branched, 4"-6" wide clusters; blooms Aug.-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry seed with tan, fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, thin, lower leaves sharply toothed or lobed and up to 10" long, upper slightly smaller and not clasping |
| Habitat: | partial to full shade; wet, moist; prairies, thickets, woods |
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