ligulate head

plant anatomy

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In Asteraceae: Flowers
…various tribes of Asteraceae, the ligulate head is almost entirely restricted to one tribe, Lactuceae (Cichorieae), and is found in all members of that tribe. Ligulate heads consist entirely of one kind of flower, the ligulate flower. Ligulate flowers superficially resemble the ray flowers of radiate heads in having a…
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