Lactuca ludoviciana: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Lactuca
- Species
- Lactuca ludoviciana
- Scientific Name
- Lactuca ludoviciana
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lactuca ludoviciana
Lactuca ludoviciana, the biannual lettuce, is a North American species of wild lettuce. It is widespread across much of central and western Canada and the western and central United States from Ontario west to British Columbia and south to Louisiana, Texas, and California. Most of the known populations are on the Great Plains; populations west of there may well represent naturalizations.
Lactuca ludoviciana is a biennial herb in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family growing from a taproot a height of up to 150 cm (5 feet). The top of the stem bears a multibranched inflorescence with many flower heads. Each head contains 20-50 yellow ray florets but no disc florets.
It has been seen to hybridize wildly with Lactuca canadensis, and it is difficult to differentiate between the two species.
...Lactuca ludoviciana in languages:
- Chinese
- 西方萵苣
- English
- Western Lettuce
- English
- Western Wild Lettuce
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Lactuca acanthifolia
- Lactuca aculeata
- Lactuca alpestris
- Lactuca biennis
- Lactuca brachyrrhyncha
- Lactuca brunoniana
- Lactuca canadensis
- Lactuca cichorioides
- Lactuca crambifolia
- Lactuca crassicaulis
- Lactuca cyprica
- Lactuca denaensis
- Lactuca dissecta
- Lactuca dolichophylla
- Lactuca dregeana
- Lactuca floridana
- Lactuca formosana
- Lactuca georgica
- Lactuca graminifolia
- Lactuca hazaranensis
- Lactuca hirsuta
- Lactuca hispida
- Lactuca homblei
- Lactuca indica
- Lactuca inermis
- Lactuca intricata
- Lactuca kanitziana
- Lactuca longidentata
- Lactuca ludoviciana
- Lactuca microcephala
- Lactuca orientalis
- Lactuca palmensis
- Lactuca perennis
- Lactuca praevia
- Lactuca pulchella
- Lactuca quercina
- Lactuca raddeana
- Lactuca rechingeriana
- Lactuca reviersii
- Lactuca rosularis
- Lactuca saligna
- Lactuca sativa
- Lactuca scarioloides
- Lactuca serriola
- Lactuca sibirica
- Lactuca singularis
- Lactuca soongorica
- Lactuca spicata
- Lactuca tatarica
- Lactuca tenerrima
- Lactuca tetrantha
- Lactuca triangulata
- Lactuca tuberosa
- Lactuca tysonii
- Lactuca undulata
- Lactuca variabilis
- Lactuca viminea
- Lactuca violifolia
- Lactuca virosa
- Lactuca watsoniana









































































































































