Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:795. 1753
Verified:
10/02/1996
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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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_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
Cultivated
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Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | oil/fat | | Vries, I. M. de. 1997. Origin and domestication of Lactuca sativa L. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:165-174. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=21360.
Accessed 20 September 2024.