Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon Literature for Lapsana communis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
   Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family Bibliography
      Lapsana communis
General Information
DistributionNative to Eurasia.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Maui, Hawai`i.















Habit
Hirsute to subglabrous annual herbs 1.5-15 dm tall.
Leaves
Leaves ovate, 2.5-10 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, with a few large teeth or lobes especially toward base, margins dentate, petiolate, becoming sessile above.
Flowers
Involucre 5-8 mm high, inner bracts linear-oblong, outer bracts ovate to lanceolate.
Fruit
Achenes 2-5(-9) mm long, outer ones much longer than inner ones, 18-30-nerved, but 5-6 of them more conspicuous, glabrous.
Chromosomes
2n = 12, 14, 16