Yellow Wild Lettuce may also be known as Florida Lettuce.

Plant is an upright, smooth biennial. Preferred habitat is prairies, roadsides and edge of woods. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

Basal leaves are extremely large and alternate on the stem; consisting of one whole part; clasping the stem; lance-like to triangular; some leaves deeply divided into segments to nearly no teeth or lobes; base graduates to a narrow point.

Flowers are in a panicle of heads; bisexual; symmetrical. Disc flowers are absent; ray flowers numerous; yellow. Flowers occur in the summer.

Fruit is achene.

The related L. floridana has blue flowers that are often confused with wild chicory.