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[[File:Lactuca serriola.jpg|thumb|right|''Lactuca serriola'', ''prickly lettuce'']]
'''Lactuca serriola''' is an annual or biennial plant in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family. It has a slightly fetid odor and is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops. Lactuca serriola is known as the compass plant because in the Sun the upper leaves twist round to hold their margins upright.[[Western ghats]]
==Uses==
{{Uses|Cardiac paralysis}}, {{Uses|Chronic catarrh}}, {{Uses|Cough}}, {{Uses|Swollen liver}}, {{Uses|Flatulence}}, {{Uses|Urinary tract infection}}, {{Uses|Ailments}}.
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple||lobed Lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets and Leaf arrangement is alternate}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|2-4cm long|blue Blue to purple, and yellow|5-20|the The flower head has ray flowers only, meaning all of the individual flowers of the flower head have a strap-shaped ray}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Simple|7–10|at At least a part of the plume is made up of fine bristles|Tuft or plume on fruit|manyMany}}
===Other features===
