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:  (not in Weeds of the Great Plains; pp. 116-117, Weeds of the Northeast)

o   has narrower, sometimes more purplish leaves than prickly lettuce, and may grow taller

 

o   summer or winter annual with tiny yellow flowers in inflorescence

o   found in similar habitats

o   not spiny