| Plant |
Height 5-45 cm, with taproot, more or less glabrous |
| Rosette leaves |
Narrowly obovate, 5-8 cm long, runcinate. Lateral lobes elliptic or narrowly ovate |
| Stem |
Few to several, procumbent to ascending, weakly branched |
| Stem leaves |
Narrowly obovate. The lower leaves runcinate, the upper ones entire, shortly decurrent. Lateral lobes narrowly ovate or elliptic |
| Heads |
Involucre at flowering cylindrical, 8-9 mm long, glabrous. Corolla ligulate, yellow. Ligule 12-15 mm long |
| Achenes |
7-8 mm long including a filiform beak of 1.5-2.0 mm long. Pappus scabridulous, white, c. 3 mm long |
| Reference |
Cichorieae Portal - based on Lack H.W. & Kilian N. (1991) Lactuca L. In: Strid A. & Tan K. (eds) Mountain Flora of Greece 2. Edinburgh |
