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Launaea intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd

Synonyms

Brachyramphus caribaeus, Brachyramphus goraeensis, Brachyramphus heyneanus, Brachyramphus intybaceus, Brachyramphus remotiflorus, Brachyramphus schimperi, Brachyramphus sonchifolius, Brachyramphus taraxacoides, Chondrilla indica, Chondrilla sonchifolia, Cicerbita intybacea, Lactuca caribaea, Lactuca goraeensis, Lactuca heyneana, Lactuca intybacea, Lactuca nudicaulis, Lactuca pinnatifida, Lactuca remotiflora, Lactuca runcinata, Lactuca schimperi, Lactuca taraxacoides, Launaea goraeensis, Launaea remotiflora, Launaea stocksiana, Phoenixopus intybaceus, Prenanthes sonchifolia, Scorzonera africana, Scorzonera pinnatifida, Sonchus calyculatus, Sonchus goraeensis, Sonchus spachii, Zollikoferia stocksiana

Common names

Achicoria azul, bitter lettuce

My notes

It may be Lactuca saligna.

Bitter lettuce (achicoria azul, Launaea intybacea) on roadside of a road to Zubara in Al Magdah farms area, in north-western Qatar, February 22, 2014
Al Ghuwairiya HC St, Al-Ghuwayriyah, Qatar

Flower of bitter lettuce (achicoria azul, Launaea intybacea) in roadside depression of Dukhan Highway. Qatar, January 15, 2016
Dukhan Hwy, Qatar

Bitter lettuce (achicoria azul, Launaea intybacea) in roadside depression of Dukhan Highway. Qatar, January 15, 2016
Dukhan Hwy, Qatar

Plants of bitter lettuce (achicoria azul, Launaea intybacea)(?) on roadside of a road to Zubara, area of Al Magdah farms. Northern Qatar, March 26, 2016
Unnamed Road, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Launaea intybacea from www.theplantlist.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.