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Hedgehog Lettuce

Launaea cervicornis

Hedgehog Lettuce
Photo: Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hedgehog lettuce is a spiny, low-growing wild daisy-family plant native to coastal shrubland in the Balearic Islands. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice is based on its dry, sunny coastal habitat.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil with low fertility.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Baleares (Mallorca, Menorca)
Climate
subtropical

About

Launaea cervicornis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Balearic Islands. It is found exclusively in coastal shrublands, where it is a keystone species.

Other Launaea plants

Mol Albina · Launaea crepoides · Launaea gorgadensis · Achicoria azul · Naked Launaea · Launaea picridioides · Launaea resedifolia · Launaea rhynchocarpa · Launaea sarmentosa · Launaea socotrana · Launaea thalassica · Launaea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Launaea cervicornis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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