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Lactuca serriola L., 1756

🇬🇧 Prickly Lettuce

🇫🇷 Escarole, Laitue sauvage, Laitue scariole

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Angiosperms
  • Clade: Eudicots
  • Clade: Superasterids
  • Clade: Asterids
  • Clade: Campanulids
  • Order: Asterales
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Subfamily: Cichorioideae
  • Tribe: Cichorieae
  • Subtribe: Lactucinae
  • Genus: Lactuca
  • Species: Lactuca serriola

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with L. virosa L., 1753, whose mature seeds are black, while those of L. serriola are brown.

Hybridizes with L. saligna L., 1753 to produce L. × dichotoma Simonk., 1890, P.

Photographs

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Lactuca serriola
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Lactuca serriola
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Lactuca serriola
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Lactuca serriola - Cauline leaves
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Lactuca serriola - Cauline leaf, abaxial side with spinules visible on the midrib
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Lactuca serriola - Seeds

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