Willowleaf Lettuce

Willowleaf Lettuce

Lactuca saligna L.

Asteraceae (Aster Family)

▲ young plant in rosette stage

▲ young, mature plant, beginning to flower

▲ ▼ flowering plants

▲ ▼ flowers

▲ leaves of prickly lettuce (left) and willowleaf lettuce (right)

Willowleaf lettuce:

  • has narrower, sometimes more purplish leaves than prickly lettuce, and may grow taller
  • summer or winter annual with tiny yellow flowers in inflorescence
  • found in similar habitats
  • not spiny

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