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Siberian Lettuce

Lactuca sibirica

Siberian Lettuce
Photo: Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Public domain

Siberian lettuce is a hardy perennial wild lettuce native to northern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and East Asia, grown mainly as a cold-tolerant leafy or ornamental plant. It needs full sun and well-drained soil and handles cold winters well.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during dry spells, letting the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Ordinary, well-drained garden soil.
Temperature
Hardy to around -30 °C; tolerates cold winters well.
How easy
Easy
Native range
N. & E. Europe to N. Korea
Climate
temperate

About

Lactuca sibirica, the Siberian lettuce, is a species of wild lettuce native to Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, all parts of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the northern half of China, the Korean peninsula, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan. It is the host of the systemic rust fungi Puccinia minussensis, which propagates with it along its ramets, resulting in complex host-parasite interactions.

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 sibirica 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.

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