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Lactuca saligna
Also called Least lettuce, Heart lettuce, Wild Lettuce, Willow Lettuce, Willow Leaf Lettuce, Willow Leaved Lettuce, Narrow Leaf Lettuce
Willowleaf lettuce (Lactuca saligna) is a slender, narrow-leaved annual wild lettuce from Eurasia that now grows as a weed in many places. It is grown only as a curiosity, so it is a plant to recognise or observe rather than cultivate for food.
Lactuca saligna is a species of wild lettuce known by the common name willowleaf lettuce, and least lettuce. It is native to Eurasia but it grows in many other places as an introduced species, including much of North America.
It can be found rarely in south-east England on dry banks near the sea and estuaries.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lactuca saligna 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.
