Scientific Name: Lactuca muralis
Common Name: wall lettuce
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C)
Plant Type: Annual, Biennial, Weed (horticultural)
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Coarse
Landscape Uses:
Exposure: Full sun, Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Obovate, Dentate, Incised, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Head (capitulum), Yellow, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Fruit: Cypsela (achene + calyx), White, Brown, Jul-Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Stems erect, 30-90cm tall with milky latex leaking if cut; leaves toothed, lobed almost to midrib with largest lobes towards the apex, 6-18(-25)cm long; flower heads 7-10mm wide comprised of 5 golden-yellow ray florets; achenes about 4mm long with silver-gray hairs.