Lactuca saligna L.

The New York Botanical Garden
Plants of U.S.A.
Asteraceae Lactuca saligna L.
det. M. Nee, 2010
INDIANA, Monroe Co., Bloomington, vie. Courtyard
Merriot hotel at S. College Ave. and E 3rd St.
39°09’50”N, 86°32’05”W. alt. 230 m.
In cracks in cement of vacant lot, unshaded, with much
more Lactuca serriola, the two species very similar, but this
one less conspicuous. Flowers open (8:55 A.M., sunny), but
the heads very inconspicuous; corollas very pale yellow,
similar in size but paler than those of L. serriola, with light
purple on outside. Leaves dark green with central whitish
stripe.
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