Wild Lettuce

Lactuca sp.

Lactuca species, Nairobi, Kenya, photo © by Michael Plagens

Among roadside vegetation near Nairobi National Park, Kenya. Dec. 2015.

This wild relative produces milky juice from broken stems in the same way as garden lettuce. Many of the leaves are clustered at ground level with smaller ones on the tall, slender, branching stems.

leaf of Lactuca species, Nairobi, Kenya, photo © by Michael Plagens

Asteraceae -- Sunflower Family -- Cichorieae

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Kenya Natural History

Copyright Michael J. Plagens, Created on 3 June 2016