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Lactuca floridana
Also called Florida Lettuce, Florida Blue Lettuce, Wild Lettuce, Florida Wild Lettuce
Woodland lettuce is a tall North American wild annual or biennial in the daisy family, a species of wild lettuce grown mainly for interest or as a wildflower rather than as a salad crop. It grows best in open, sunny, disturbed ground with plenty of room.
Lactuca floridana, commonly known as woodland lettuce, Florida lettuce, or false lettuce, is a North American species of wild lettuce. It is native across much of central Canada and the eastern and central United States.
Lactuca floridana is an annual or biennial plant in the Cichorieae (dandelion) tribe within the Asteraceae (daisy) family. Lactuca floridana was found to contain 11β,13-Dihydro-lactucin-8-O-acetate hemihydrate.
L. floridana is native in the United States from Texas in the west, Florida in the south, Massachusetts in the east, and the Canadian border in the north. In Canada it is native in Manitoba and Ontario, although it is possibly extirpated in Manitoba and it's critically imperiled in Ontario. Habitats include disturbed areas, prairies, along roadsides, pastures, and miscellaneous waste areas.
Cicerbita macrophylla · Lactuca aculeata · Lactuca alpestris · Tall blue lettuce · Canada lettuce · Lactuca dissecta · Lactuca dolichophylla · Grassleaf lettuce · Hairy lettuce · Indian lettuce · African Lettuce · Biannual lettuce
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lactuca floridana 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.
