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Photographer: Christopher Noll
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Family Asteraceae
Prenanthes racemosa Michx.
glaucous white-lettuce, purple rattlesnake-root
Prenanthes: from prenes for "drooping" and anthe for "blossom"
racemosa: Latin for "having a raceme" (cluster of flowers each on its own stalk and arranged along a single central stem)
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 1'-5' tall forb with milky juice; stems smooth below the hairy inflorescence |
| Flower: | head 1/2" wide with pinkish ray flowers, bracts (phyllaries) hairy; inflorescence with mostly erect to nodding heads in dense, long, narrow clusters; blooms Aug.-Oct. |
| Fruit: | dry seed with fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, smooth, lower leaves with long stalks, usually not falling with age, upper getting smaller and becoming stalkless to clasping |
| Habitat: | moist; prairies, meadows, streambanks |
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