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Sonchus oleraceus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
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1753
794
ICN
Sonchus oleraceus L.
species
Sonchus oleraceus

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oleraceus

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Sonchus oleraceus L.

Annual. Roots tap and fibrous. Stem erect, simple or branched, finely grooved or ribbed, glabrous, 50-120 cm tall. Lvs soft, dull to ± shiny, mid to dark green to glaucous above, pale to glaucous beneath, glabrous, ± oblanceolate to obovate; margins dentate with spinulose teeth. Rosette and lower stem lvs (4)-10-20 × (1.5)-4-10 cm, pinnatifid almost to midrib; lobes reflexed or recurved, ovate to narrowly triangular; petiole narrowly winged. Upper lvs pinnatifid, usually with broadly triangular terminal lobe, 1-3 pairs of narrowly triangular lateral lobes, a broadly expanded winged petiole, and an amplexicaul-auriculate base with pointed lobes, sometimes lf not lobed, ovate-amplexicaul, rarely pinnatisect with linear lobes. Infl. cymose to umbellate; capitula few to many. Involucre 10-15 mm long, turbinate to cylindric; bracts imbricate, reflexed at fruiting, usually glabrous or rarely with a few pale glandular or eglandular setae. Receptacle glabrous. Florets 11/2× length of involucre; corolla tube c. = ligule; ligules spreading, yellow. Achenes narrowly obovoid to clavate, brown, weakly flattened, 2.5-3 × 0.8-1 mm, 3-ribbed on each face, not winged; ribs and spaces between finely transversely wrinkled. Pappus fine, white, c. = involucre.

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Sonchus oleraceus L.
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Sonchus oleraceus L.

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Sonchus oleraceus L.
Chile
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Cook Islands
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Fiji
Sonchus oleraceus L.
France
Sonchus oleraceus L.
French Polynesia
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Lord Howe Island
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Niue
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Norfolk Island
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Tonga
Sonchus oleraceus L.
United States
Sonchus oleraceus L.
Vanuatu

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
14 June 2006
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