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Photographer: Dan Tenaglia
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Family Asteraceae
Lactuca floridana (L.) Gaertn.
blue lettuce, woodland lettuce
Lactuca: name for "milk"
floridana: of Florida
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual/biennial, 2' - 6 1/2' tall forb with milky juice; stems leafy |
| Flower: | head 3/8" wide with 11-17 blue to white rays; inflorescence with many heads in open branched cluster; blooms June-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry seed with several obvious lines on both sides, on white, fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | mostly stalked, bases not arrow-shaped, toothed to pinnately-divided |
| Habitat: | moist; thickets, woods |
| (Glossary) |
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