| Plant |
Height 60-120 cm |
| Stem |
Erect, white, smooth, glabrous |
| Leaves |
Oblanceolate, unlobed or runcinate-pinnatisect with 4-6 lateral lobes, glaucous, glabrous, smooth or shortly spinose-setose on midrib beneath, sinuate-denticulate. Median stem leaves 8-16 x 3.5-4.5 cm, auriculate, auricles rounded |
| Inflorescence |
Rather divaricately branched, corymbiform, many heads, ± glabrous |
| Heads |
Except terminal heads: shortly pedunculate or almost sessile, solitary or in small clusters. Involucre 9.5-14 mm, rather longer in fruit than in flower. Phyllaries 12-14, 3-seriate, glabrous. Flowers yellow, 1.8-2.0 cm, hairy about mouth |
| Achenes |
9.5 mm, pale brown, with ± concolorous slender 4.0-4.7 mm beak. Pappus white, 5.5-7.0 mm |
| Reference |
Cichorieae Portal - based on Jeffrey C. (1975) Lactuca L. In: Davis P.H. et al. (eds) Flora of Turkey 5. Edinburgh |
