Prickly Lettuce
Scientific Name: Lactuca serriola
Upper leaves twist to orient north-south to minimize midday sun exposure. Native to the Mediterranean region.
Prickly Lettuce
Scientific Name: Lactuca serriola
Prickly Lettuce
| Genus species: | Lactuca serriola | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Prickly Lettuce | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Asteraceae 
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela). | |||||||||||
| Seed Type | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Introduced Native | |||||||||||
| Category: | Wildflower | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | J.D. Mancini | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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