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Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
Short to tall hairy plant without milky latex. Stems leafy, erect to 1.2 metres, branched or unbranched. Leaves oval toothed often lobed at the base. Flowerheads yellow, 10 to 20 mm in a lax branched panicle all the florets rayed.
Waste and disturbed ground, roadsides.
June to October.
Annual.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 591 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Nipplewort
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asterales
- Family:
- Asteraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 289
- First record:
- 01/01/2005 (Harry Ball)
- Last record:
- 28/10/2023 (Smith, Peter)
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Liriomyza puella
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Liriomyza puella mines the leaves of Nipplewort. The mine starts as a corridor which then expands into a blotch which is dark with white borders. The blotch mine is initially circular, or slightly elongated, but becomes irregular as the mine matures and turning brown with age.