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Lactuca sativa L.; lechuga, lettuce

Biennial herb with white latex; leaves alternate, simple, elongate and irregularly lobed, base clasping, margin lobed and toothed, apex acute; heads arising from axils of upper nodes, yellow; ray florets only (disk florets absent); fruiting achenes with parachute-like plumes.

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