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Lactuca dolichophylla, the long-leaved lettuce, is a wild relative of cultivated lettuce from the Himalayas and nearby highlands, found in thickets at high altitude. It is not commonly grown in gardens, so care is mostly a matter of mimicking cool, open mountain conditions.
Lactuca dolichophylla, the long-leaved lettuce, is a species of wild lettuce found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Nepal, Xizang (Tibet), East Himalaya, south-central China, and Myanmar. It prefers to grow in thickets at c.3200 m above sea level. Its chromosome count is 2n=16.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lactuca dolichophylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
