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|accepted_name=Mulgedium
|accepted_authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 33: 296. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Mulgedium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mulgedium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin mulgere, to milk, alluding to milky sap
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 215, 219, 259
|treatment_page=page 258
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals or biennials], 15–100+ cm; ± rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, usually erect, branched distally, glabrous or glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline or mostly cauline; petiolate (basal) or sessile; blades oblong, elliptic, or ovate to lanceolate or linear, margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed (faces glabrous, often glaucous). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated distally, usually bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> of 3–13+, deltate to lanceolate bractlets (sometimes intergrading with phyllaries). <b>Involucres</b> cylindric, 2–5[–8+] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 8–13+ in 1–2 series, lanceolate to linear, subequal to equal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices acute. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> (10–)15–50+; corollas usually bluish [yellow]. <b>Cypselae</b> reddish brown to brown-mottled or slatey [blackish], bodies ± compressed, lanceoloid, beaks 0 (or gradually set off from and ± concolorous with bodies), ribs 4–6 on each face, faces glabrous [scabrid]; pappi persistent (borne on discs at tips of cypselae or beaks), of 80–120+, whitish, ± equal, barbellulate to nearly smooth bristles in 2–3+ series. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 15 or so (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>In referring a species long included in <i>Lactuca</i> to <i>Mulgedium</i>, I was influenced by K. Bremer (1994).</p>
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name=Mulgedium
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Cassini in F. Cuvier
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|distribution=North America;Europe;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Mulgedium
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