146 YELLOW AND ORANGE 



WILD LETTUCE: Tall Lettuce: Wild Opium: 

 Horse-weed. Lactuca canadensis. 



Composite Family. June — Sept. 



Found in roadsides, borders of fields, thick- 

 ets, moist soil. Canada to Georgia, west to 

 Arkansas. 

 Flower-heads — Pale-yellow, numerous, small, in 

 loose, spreading cluster terminating 

 stem, 4-10 feet high. 

 Leaves — Lower leaves deeply toothed, often 1 

 foot long, narrowed toward the base; 

 upper leaves lance-shaped, toothless. 



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