An erect annual or biennial herb ; up to 2 . 5 m tall . Stems solitary , robust , simple below and branching above , glabrous to ± densely spinulose in the lower part , sometimes strongly so , leafy . Leaves ± appressed to the stem , sessile , broadly elliptic in outline and runcinate-pinnate . Inflorescences on slender , bracteate stalks up to c . 4 cm long . Flowers c . 14 per capitulum ; corollas yellow , c . 9 mm long , tubes slender , ± densely pilose about the mouth . Fruits achenes , 3 x 1 mm , oblanceolate , somewhat laterally compressed , broadly-ribbed on the margins and narrowly c . 5-ribbed on each face , pale-or greyish-brown . Seeds pappus several-seriate of numerous white , barbellate setae c . 4 mm . long . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Lactuca sativa subsp. serriola (L.) Frietema
Lactuca scariola L.
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Prickly Lettuce
China Lettuce
Compass Plant
Wild Lettuce
Milk Thistle
orse thistle
Whip Thistle
Wild Opium
Scarole
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
