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|accepted_name=Launaea intybacea
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) Beauverd
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér.
|place=2, 2: 114. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|common_names=Wild-lettuce
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lactuca intybacea
|authority=Jacquin
|publication_title=in J. A. Murray, Syst. Veg. ed.
|publication_place=14, 713. 1784
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachyramphus intybacea
|authority=(Jacquin) de Candolle
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Launaea;Launaea intybacea
|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>[[Launaea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Launaea intybacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 272
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves </b>(5–)10–25+ × 2–6(–12) cm, usually runcinately to sinuately lobed, bases ± auriculate, ultimate margins spinulo-denticulate, apices acute to acuminate. <b>Involucres</b> 10–15 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 4–5 mm; pappi 6–9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18 (as <i>Lactuca</i> runcinata).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, roadsides, coastal strands, agricultural lands
|elevation=0–5[–1200+] m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Old World.
|discussion=<p><i>Launaea intybacea</i> is occasionally used for food. It is a very successful r-strategist and is listed as a noxious plant in A Global Compendium of Weeds (R. Randall, http://www.hear.org/gcw/index.html).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Launaea intybacea
|author=
|authority=(Jacquin) Beauverd
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Brachyramphus intybacea
|basionyms=Lactuca intybacea
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, roadsides, coastal strands, agricultural lands
|elevation=0–5[–1200+] m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Old World.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér.
|publication year=1910
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_374.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Launaea
|species=Launaea intybacea
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