Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Wall Lettuce, Mycelis muralis, Leitís bhalla
Photographs: Co. Clare and Co. Waterford

Wall Lettuce
Mycelis muralis
Leitís bhalla
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: June-September. Biennial/perennial. Introduced.

Broad, delicate panicles of small pale-yellow flowers with 5 slender ray florets are followed by beaked, blackish seeds. The hairless leaves are pinnately-lobed, toothed and with a large +/- triangular end-lobe. Upper leaves are stalkless. The leaves and slender, branched stems are often tinged reddish. Height 25-100cm.

Grows on waste ground, walls, hedgebanks and in rocky woodland. Scattered Irish distribution, most frequent in Co. Clare and Co. Galway

Wall Lettuce, Mycelis muralis, Leitís bhalla

Wall Lettuce, Mycelis muralis, Leitís bhalla
Wall Lettuce, Mycelis muralis, Leitís bhalla

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