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lactuca serriola
Lactuca serriola, also called prickly lettuce, milk thistle (not to be confused with Silybum marianum, also called milk thistle), compass plant, and scarole, is an annual or biennial plant in the tribe … Wikipedia
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Factsheet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
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Canadian Science Publishing
cdnsciencepub.com › doi › 10.4141 › P02-059
The biology of Canadian weeds. 122. Lactuca serriola L.
Lactuca serriola (prickly lettuce, compass plant) is a winter or summer annual, introduced to Canada from Eurasia, and found in all provinces except Newfoundland. It occupies a variety of disturbed sites, and is becoming an increasing problem ...
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Diego Bonetto
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Wild lettuce as food and pain relief: how to identify it in your garden. — Wild Plants, Foraging, Food, Art and Culture
November 10, 2025 - The best part of prickly lettuce - Lactuca serriola- is the young leaves. I love the strong, bitter taste, but if you are not accustomed to this flavour I’d suggest eating the leaves combined with other less intensely flavoured greens. Opium lettuce -Lactuca virosa- leaves can be eaten too when young but are even more bitter.
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Forestry Images
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prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola L.)
1 month ago - Image 1459306 is of prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola L.). It is by Steve Dewey, Utah State University, Bugwood.org .
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GBIF
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Lactuca serriola L.
Lactuca sativa subsp. serriola (L.) Frietema
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Flora of Pennsylvania
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Lactuca serriola (prickly lettuce)
This is an annual or biennial species native to Eurasia, but widely naturalized in North America. It is the closest wild relative to cultivated lettuce. It is a very tall, branched plant growing 2-7 feet tall. It has numerous small (1/4 inch) dandelion-like flowers that are pale yellow in color.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/foraging › newbie here! is this wild lettuce/prickly lettuce? (l. serriola). this is a valueable medicine that i may have stumbled upon, but i have never used it directly from nature.
r/foraging on Reddit: Newbie here! Is this wild lettuce/prickly lettuce? (L. Serriola). This is a valueable medicine that I may have stumbled upon, but I have never used it directly from nature.
April 26, 2021 - I can't imagine what else this would be, regarding possible poisonous lookalikes, but I'm too inexperienced to make that call. Edit: Just found your post on r/herbalism. Thanks! ... No problem! And yes, I did happen to get 100% ID. My confusion became distinguishing between the virosa and serriola species, the two species of opium lettuce.
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Illinois Wildflowers
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Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola)
Description: This annual or biennial plant is 2-7' tall and unbranched, except where the upper flowering stems occur. The central stem is light green or dull white, glabrous, and round in circumference. There may be a few prickles toward its base. The alternate leaves are up to 12" long and ...
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ScienceDirect
sciencedirect.com › science › article › abs › pii › S0305197824000504
Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of an apolar extract from Lactuca serriola L. leaves - ScienceDirect
April 29, 2024 - Lactuca serriola L. is an annual herbaceous plant species belonging to the Asteraceae family, called Prickly lettuce, Wild lettuce, and Jagged lettuce. L. serriola grows on grassy and rocky slopes in many regions in Europe, Asia, Australia, ...
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Botsoc
botsoc.scot › 2021 › 08 › 29 › plant-of-the-week-30th-august-2021-prickly-lettuce-lactuca-serriola-l
Lactuca serriola – 30th August 2021 – Prickly Lettuce
May 18, 2025 - A strange feature of Prickly is that it exists in two forms, one with simple spade-like stem-leaves and the other with indented-lobed stem-leaves. The artist who painted the picture above obviously knew this fact; he helpfully drew both types of leaf. The Great Lettuce never has the indented stem-leaves, so the Bingham plants, with their sharply indented leaves were almost certainly L. serriola.
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Lucid Central
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Factsheet - Lactuca serriola
Notes: The beak breaks easily, so that the pappus will presumably often be missing when this species is encountered. The three species of Lactuca covered in this key have very similar fruits, but L. sativa generally has larger fruits than L. saligna and L. serriola (1-2 mm wide versus up to ...
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eBay
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Wild Lettuce (Lactuca virosa) & Prickly Lettuce (L. serriola) Buyer Gets Both | eBay
Wild Lettuce (Lactuca virosa) & Prickly Lettuce (L. serriola) Buyer Gets Both
Like Wild Lettuce, this whole plant is rich in a milky sap that flows freely from any wounds. This species does not contain as much lactucarium as L. virosa. The whole plant is rich in a milky sap that flows freely from any wounds.
Price   $5.95
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Gardencityplastics
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Prickly lettuce | Garden City Plastics
Lactuca serriola is native to Eurasia and north Africa, and has become naturalized elsewhere. The long auricles at the base of the leaf might appear clasping.
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Missouri Plants
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Lactuca serriola L.
Family - Asteraceae/Cichorieae · Habit - Annual or biennial forb with white, milky sap
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Invasive Plant Atlas
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prickly lettuce: Lactuca serriola (Asterales: Asteraceae): Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States
Website developed by The University of Georgia - Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health and the National Park Service in cooperation with the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England, Invasive Plant Control, Inc., USDA Forest Service, USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower ...
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iNaturalist
inaturalist.org › taxa › 53107-Lactuca-serriola
prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola) · iNaturalist
Lactuca serriola, also called prickly lettuce, milk thistle (not to be confused with Silybum marianum, also called milk thistle) compass plant, and scarole, is an annual or biennial plant in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family.
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Lean6life
lean6life.com › 2020 › 08 › 02 › wild-lettuce-revisited
Wild Lettuce Revisited, Week Ending 8/2/2020 – In Search of the Lean Six Life
August 2, 2020 - The one thing I have discovered: the “wild lettuce” growing in my yard is actually prickly lettuce (L. serriola), the wild ancestor of modern garden variety lettuces (L.
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Invasive.org
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prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola L.)
1 month ago - Image 1557095 is of prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola L.). It is by Ohio State Weed Lab , The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org .