Lactuca floridana (Linnaeus) Gaertner (Q3128)

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Lactuca floridana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lactuca
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Lactuca floridana (Linnaeus) Gaertner
Lactuca floridana is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Lactuca

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    taxon/id/Lactuca floridana (Linnaeus) Gaertner
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    Lactuca floridana (Linnaeus) Gaertner
    Lactuca floridana
    (Linnaeus) Gaertner
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    laitue de Floride (French)
    woodland lettuce (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    Flowering (Jun–)Aug–Sep(–Oct).
    moist to wet places
    margins
    thickets
    blades of undivided cauline leaves oblong, ovate, or elliptic, margins entire or denticulate, midribs sometimes sparsely pilose.
    Heads in (± pyramidal) paniculiform arrays.
    Involucres (8–) 10–12+ mm.
    Phyllaries usually reflexed in fruit.
    Florets 10–15 (–25+);
    corollas bluish or whitish, seldom deliquescent.
    Cypselae: bodies brown (often mottled), ± compressed-lanceoloid to fusiform, 4–5 mm, beaks ± stout, 0.1–0.5 (–1) mm, faces 5–6-nerved;
    pappi white, 4–5 mm. 2n = 34.