Common Names in English: Gaspe Peninsula, Gaspe Peninsula Goat
Chicory The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae
(Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000
species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a
head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre
of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk
flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the
burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion. The
Lactuceae are a tribe of closely related genera of the sunflower
family that are easily recognized because the flowering heads
are composed of wholly of ligulate florets that are usually
5-lobed. Another very distinguishing feature is the milky sap .
Although not apparent without magnification, the pollen is
distinctive in that the spines are more or less restricted to
discrete ridges or flanges on the surface of the grain. In other
members of the family the spines are distributed more or less
evenly over the surface of t