Annual or biennial herb ; up to 1 m tall , glabrous . Stems erect . Leaves rosette ; basal leaves entire to pinnatifid , shortly petiolate ; stem leaves sessile , cordate-amplexicaul . Inflorescences numerous in dense paniculate . Flowers pale yellow , often violet-streaked . Fruit achenes , 6–8 mm long , body obovate in outline , 5–9-ribbed , beak as long as body . Seeds pappus , 3 mm long . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lactuca sativa var. patula Stokes
Lactuca scariola subsp. sativa (L.) Bonnier & Layens
Lactuca scariola var. sativa (L.) Moris
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Lettuce
Common Lettuce
Garden Lettuce
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387.*https://en.wikipedia.org *http://southwestdesertflor *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org