Lactuca serriola
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Description
Prickly lettuce, an annual or biennial, grey green prickly herb, is anchored to the substrate by a sturdy taproot which grows slowly over the summer, sometimes to over a metre tall, but which on poor sites may remain around twenty centimetres tall.
Observations in Finland
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
A total of observations in Finland ?
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Observations
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Species card
Checklist
FinBIF master checklist
Scientific name
Lactuca serriola
Author
L.
Vernacular names
- piikkisalaatti (Finnish)
- taggsallat (Swedish)
Identifier
http://tun.fi/MX.39942
Taxon rank
species
Occurrence in Finland
Collected from Finland
Status in Finland
- TNV - alien, new, resident
This species is invasive
Establishment | Established |
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Regulatory Status
Other invasive species ?
Finnish Regional Red List Category
- 2019 NA – Not Applicable
- 2010 NA – Not Applicable
Expert
- Arto Kurtto
DNA barcode sequences
Informal groups
- Vascular plants
Taxon information in machine-readable form