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Common names: | Hairy wild lettuce (English) |
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Status: | Introduced |
Description: |
Perennial herb with flowering stems growing from a basal rosette of oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic leaves, margins deeply pinnately lobed, more or less densely hairy above. Flower heads solitary with 3 to 4 whorls of involucral bracts, bright yellow. |
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Habitat: | A cosmopolitan weed of road sides and other disturbed places, originally from Europe. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Native of Europe; naturalised in many parts of the world |
Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Sunday 14 December 2008 |
Literature: |
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 26. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 192 - 194. (Includes a picture). |
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