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Common Name : Bold-leaf launaeae
Family : Asteraceae
Perennial herb with a taproot and often shoot
bearing lateral roots, up to 40-50 cm high.
A short woody caudex.
Launaea nudicaulis (Linn.) Hook. f.
One or a few basal leaf rosettes, each usually
with several procumbent to ascending-erect,
divaricately branched, occasionally straggling
flowering stems; Caudical leaves 2-12 x 0.5-3.5
cm, rather variable, narrowly spathulate in
outline, sinuate-dentate to irregularly
pinnatifid to mostly runcinate, with acute apex
and acute segments, margin sinuate-dentate
and denticulate.
Inflorescence of a flowering stem ending in a
single capitulum and with a variable number
of flowering branches; peduncles 2-15 mm
long, wiry, spreading-erect; flowers usually
yellow.
Achenes 2.6-5.5 x 0.5-1.0 mm, heteromorphic,
with 4 main ribs, smooth to somewhat
transversely wrinkled, pale.
Weed ID Manual 197