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Common Name: grassleaf lettuce
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Revision as of 14:23, 2 July 2015

Lactuca graminifolia
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus: Lactuca
Species: L. graminifolia
Binomial name
Lactuca graminifolia
Michx.
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Natural range of Lactuca graminifolia from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Common Name: grassleaf lettuce

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

Found in patches of degraded longleaf pine sandhill after burn and control (no burn) treatments.[1]

Phenology

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Pollination

Mark Deyrup at Archbold Biological Station observed these Hymenoptera species on Lactuca graminifolia

Halictidae: Halictus poeyi

Megachilidae: Dianthidium floridiense

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. Heuberger, K. A. and F. E. Putz (2003). "Fire in the suburbs: ecological impacts of prescribed fire in small remnants of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) sandhill." Restoration Ecology 11: 72-81.