Lactuca virosa L.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Lactuca virosa L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 795 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Bitter lettuce

English name: bitter lettuce

English name: great lettuce

Italian name: Lattuga velenosa

German name: Gift-Lattich

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual, Biennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Lactuca
Species:

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Lactuca virosa
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Lactuca virosa
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Lactuca virosa
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Athens, Anafiotika, northern slope of the Acropolis, Choris Onoma, Attica, Greece, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lactuca virosa
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Monaco di Baviera, Orto Botanico di Monaco-Nymphenburg, Monaco, Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lactuca virosa
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Lactuca virosa
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Cortona, prato nei pressi delle mura urbane settentrionali., AR, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lactuca virosa
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 318.

Lactuca virosa
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Lactuca virosa
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Lactuca virosa
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Lactuca virosa
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Lactuca virosa
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Lactuca virosa
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, CA, DC)

Distributional map for Lactuca virosa L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Laeliopsis domingensis (Lindl.) Lindl. [136]
2) Laennecia filaginoides DC. [226]
3) Lagarosiphon major (Ridley) Moss [465]
4) Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl. [2637]
5) Lagenaria vulgaris Ser. [170]
6) Lagenifera maviensis H. Mann [148]
7) Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers. [719]
8) Lagotis glauca Gaertn. ssp. minor (Willd.) Hultén [145]
9) Lagurus ovatus L. [2510]
10) Lamium hybridum auct. non Vill. [221]

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