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Wild lettuce is a common name for several plants related to lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and may refer to:
- Lactuca virosa (Europe, Asia, introduced to North America)
- Lactuca canadensis (North America)
- Lactuca ludoviciana (NW America)
- Lactuca serriola (Southern Europe)
Usage examples of "wild lettuce".
With some help from the servants, who invariably seemed to her to be the ones who knew such things, she had hunted down an apothecary who sold her the Syrup of Wild Lettuce, and willow bark for a tea.
She had been collecting wild lettuce and asparagus, and had filled her small sack.
There is an herb, wild lettuce, that will make him sleep, but I have only a little of it left.
She slipped into a clean abba as the suns climbed higher in the sky and sat down on a flat-topped boulder where she swished a few wild lettuce leaves in the water until they were crisp and cold and watched the river flow past her feet as she nibbled at them.
Lactuca Canadensis, the wild Lettuce or Trumpet Weed, and Hieracium Canadense, are also given the designation of 'Fireweed' in America from their habit of growing on newly-burnt fallow, but Erechtites hieracifolia (Rafin.
New green leaves of clover, pigweed, nettles, balsam root, dandelion, and wild lettuce would be cooked or eaten raw.
A mountain of wild lettuce, burdock, pigweed, and dandelion leaves, freshly washed, was waiting to be served raw with a dressing of hot bear grease, seasonings, and salt, added at the last moment.
He found cress and wild lettuce, and made a meal of the fresh sharp salad, then continued along the path.
Lunch was whatever he could find, in the hour when Khefti slepta handful of wild lettuce, latas roots grubbed out of the riverbank and eaten raw, wild onions so strong they made the eyes water.