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Stephanomeria lactucina
Also called Creeping Wire Lettuce, Large Flowered Wire Lettuce, Lettuce Wire Lettuce, Woodland Wire Lettuce, Woodland Wirelettuce
A rhizomatous perennial wildflower from the daisy family, native to Oregon and California, found in coastal and mountain woodlands. It is grown mainly as a native plant for shaded, moist woodland gardens.
Stephanomeria lactucina is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names lettuce wirelettuce and woodland wirelettuce. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in coastal and inland mountain ranges, including the Sierra Nevada. It can be found in many types of habitat, including coniferous forests. It is rhizomatous perennial herb producing a slender, erect stem reaching 30 to 60 centimeters in maximum height. The linear or lance-shaped leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and their edges are lined with widely spaced teeth. Solitary flower heads occur on erect peduncles. Each head contains up to 10 ray florets, each with an elongated tube and a fringed pink ligule roughly a centimeter long. The fruit is an achene tipped with a spreading cluster of long, plumelike pappus bristles.
Chicoryleaf wirelettuce · San Diego wirelettuce · Santa Barbara wirelettuce · Small wirelettuce · Teton wirelettuce · Malheur wirelettuce · Stephanomeria occultata · Tufted wirelettuce · Parry's wirelettuce · Brownplume wirelettuce · Desert wirelettuce · Slender Wire Lettuce
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stephanomeria lactucina 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.
