The tutor shares another yard find.

I’ve noticed wall lettuce in the yard for at least ten years, but only recently identified it. In the right places, it grows fast. It’s a tall thin plant with leaves that hold the stem all the way around, which is known as “clasping.” Near the base, the leaves have arrowhead-shaped lobes: the end one points out, while those further back point sideways. Further up, the leaves can be simpler.

The flowers are small, yellow, and five-petaled. They occur at the ends of branches, in bunches. I haven’t noticed a fragrance from them.

To say that wall lettuce prefers to grow near a wall is accurate in my experience: I’d elaborate that it seems to like wall edges.

HTH:)

Source:

Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver:
  BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.