| Lactuca serriola L., it is an annual or biennial herb, up to 2 m high. plant with milky latex. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade up to 200 x 100 mm, Flowers pale yellow., Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Jul-Oct, Vern: ——, Phytochoria: S.Cosm, The native range of this species is Europe to SW. Siberia and Xinjiang, NW. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:228255-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000015140, https://www.gbif.org/species/3140490, https://www.missouriplants.com/Lactuca_serriola_page.html, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/lactuca/serriola/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_serriola |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Sirte Plains | Jabal Nafusa |
| Sirte 2016 | Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses , Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Elsayed, N. (2016) Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya.CATRINA (2016), 15 (1): 59-68. https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=mSAskW0AAAAJ&hl=en , https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18337_76652686b5c99f5fd479aebab87fbcb4.pdf | Surt region in Libya 2016 |
| Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic) |
