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blue lettuce
Lactuca pulchella
Lactuca pulchella
blue lettuce Aster Family
Lactuca pulchella Asteraceae
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common name
  blue lettuce
accepted scientific name
  •Lactuca pulchella DC.
rules for finding collection records
  Lactuca oblongifolia (109)
  Lactuca pulchella (545)
  Lactuca tatarica (1317)
  Mulgedium oblongifolium (734)
  Mulgedium pulchellum (755)
family name
  • Asteraceae
Image Author: ©2012 Richard Spellenberg
Image License: CC BY-NC-SA
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Category: Wildflowers
Flowers: Many petals
Petal colors: color color
Flower size is 0.8 to 1.2 inches
Number of ray petals: 18 to 50
Leaf: Alternate, Basal
Plant Observed beginning of June thru end of September

Plant Showiness (54%)
base map where plant found
mag select

Riparian
Grassland
Disturbed
Forest
Sand
Meadow
Native Plant Status
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native Native
native Not Present