The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Lactuca graminifolia
Also called Grass Leaf Lettuce
Grassleaf lettuce is a North American wild lettuce, usually a biennial that grows from a taproot and produces branching clusters of blue or purple flower heads. It is a wild species rather than a cultivated salad crop, so grow it for its native appeal in dry, open, sunny sites.
Lactuca graminifolia, the grassleaf lettuce is a North American species of wild lettuce. It grows in Mexico, Central America, Hispaniola, and the southern United States from Arizona to Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas.
L. graminifolia's range extends from North Carolina south to Florida, and westward to Louisiana.
Cicerbita macrophylla · Lactuca aculeata · Lactuca alpestris · Tall blue lettuce · Canada lettuce · Lactuca dissecta · Lactuca dolichophylla · Woodland lettuce · Hairy lettuce · Indian lettuce · African Lettuce · Biannual lettuce
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lactuca graminifolia 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.
