Vegetative key to the families

Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families

LATEX (milky white or yellow) present in stem and leaves

Herbs

Either; leaves all basal or basal and cauline; or, all cauline and exceeding 5 cm long

Leaves glabrous or with prickly hairs on the blades, c. 10 cm wide, the petioles not bristly-hairy nor the leaves mottled with yellow (Sylibum, tribe Lactuceae) Asteraceae

consider the other alternative

Burr not formed around the fruits at maturity

choose this alternative reject this alternative

Florets all tubular or filiform and tubular (Fig. 41) or; florets with ligule present but the ligule less than 3mm

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Florets ligulate and tubular, or all ligulate; ligule more than 3 mm long