Lapsana L.
Annual to perennial taprooted herbs. Hairs glandular, eglandular, or 0. Stems branching above. Lvs basal and cauline, lyrate-pinnatifid to undivided. Capitula in diffuse panicles. Involucral bracts in 2 rows, glabrous or hairy, the outer few, much < the inner. Receptacle areolate, glabrous; scales 0. Corolla ligulate, yellow. Style branches filiform, dark. Achenes few, pale, fusiform, weakly flattened, ribbed, not beaked; pappus 0.
9 spp., temperate Eurasia. Naturalised sp. 1.
