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Taxon:  Lactuca sativa L.



Summary
Genus:
Lactuca
Section:
Lactuca
Family:
Asteraceae (alt. Compositae)
Subfamily:
Cichorioideae
Tribe:
Cichorieae
Subtribe:
Lactucinae
Nomen number:
21360
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:795. 1753
Verified:
10/02/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
4 (4  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Lactuca sativa L. var. angustana L. H. Bailey (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. capitata L. (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa L. (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia Lam. (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7. 2001 Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
  3. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  4. Feráková, V. 1977. The genus Lactuca in Europe. 67-68.
  5. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  6. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  7. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  8. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  9. Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985
  10. Lebeda, A. et al. 2004. Geographical distribution of wild Lactuca species (Asteraceae, Lactuceae). Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 70:328-356
  11. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  12. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  13. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:105.
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  15. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  16. Scoggan, H. J. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. 1978-1979
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  19. Vries, I. M. de. 1997. Origin and domestication of Lactuca sativa L.. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:165-174. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
  20. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
garden lettuce –
lettuce –
French
laitue –
laitue cultivée –
German
Garten-Lattich –
grüner Salat –
Kopfsalat –
Italian
lattuga –
Portuguese
alface –
Spanish
lechuga –
Swedish
sallat –
Transcribed Korean
sangchu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    only cult.
Cultivated (only cult.)
Economic Uses
Human food
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Lampe & McCann) –


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