Lapsana

Leaf: generally cauline, alternate, 2--20 cm, petioled or distal +- sessile, ovate, entire to toothed, often few-lobed proximally on petiole.

Inflorescence: panicle-like; heads liguliflorous, erect; peduncles slender, ascending, subtended by scale-like bracts

involucre ovoid to +- cylindric, glabrous; phyllaries in 2 series, outer few, 0.5--1 mm, inner 8--10, equal, 3--9 mm, linear-oblong, distally keeled, erect in fruit;

Flower: 6--15; ligules 4--10 mm, exceeding involucre, yellow, readily withering.

Flower: 6--15; ligules 4--10 mm, exceeding involucre, yellow, readily withering.Fruit: 3--5 mm, curved, fusiform, +- compressed, +- 20-veined, pale brown, glabrous; pappus 0.

Flowers closing or closed at 2:30 PM depending on sun exposure; Mycelis open

Flowers closing or closed at 2:30 PM depending on sun exposure; Mycelis open