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Hairy Vein Lettuce

Lactuca raddeana

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Russian Far East to Japan and Vietnam
Climate
temperate

About

Lactuca raddeana is a species of wild lettuce native to Vietnam, eastern China, the Korean peninsula, the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan. A biennial or perennial, growing to 2 m, it has a very wide range of variation in leaf shape, across a spectrum from undivided leaves to pinnatipartite leaves. It is edible but bitter.

Other Lactuca plants

Cicerbita macrophylla · Lactuca aculeata · Lactuca alpestris · Tall blue lettuce · Canada lettuce · Lactuca dissecta · Lactuca dolichophylla · Woodland lettuce · Grassleaf lettuce · Hairy lettuce · Indian lettuce · African Lettuce

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lactuca raddeana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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