Mycelis muralis

Wall-lettuce

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial

Wall-lettuce is a naturalized perennial herb found in moist ground, wooded disturbed areas, and roadsides at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering in summer, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in small panicle-like clusters with slender peduncles. Growing with a single, somewhat erect and hollow stem 30 to 50 centimeters tall, it develops from a thickened caudex with fibrous roots. Its leaves are distinctively shaped, with oblanceolate to spoon-shaped blades deeply pinnately lobed, featuring a large triangular terminal lobe and sharply dentate edges. The fruit is dark brown or black, flattened, with fine ribs and a short beak crowned by a white tuft of fine bristles.

Habitat: Moist ground, wooded disturbed areas, roadsides

Elevation: < 1400 m

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