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