Wild lettuce also has a noxious or unpleasant smell, and it forms wavy leaves with prickly hairs underneath. Its yellow flowers turn into white fluffy plumes full of seeds that blow with the wind.

Do you know where the wild lettuce grows? Ask a bunny. In Beatrix Potter’s eponymous tale, the Flopsy Bunnies eat too many lettuces and fall asleep in an ill-advised spot, where Mr. MacGregor ...

Oil-seed lettuce and the prickly wild lettuce were resistant to rot,” explained lead author Bullo Mamo, a postdoctoral researcher in the UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology.

In this study, a team of researchers isolated and analyzed DNA from 445 different kinds of lettuce. According to this research, modern lettuce varieties seem to have the most in common, genetically, ...

During the 19th century, for instance, some doctors used lactucarium — a dried, hardened form of a bitter, milky juice secreted by wild lettuce — as a sedative, or combined lettuce with other ...

Like all the modern cultivated lettuces, romaine lettuce developed from a prickly and bitter wild lettuce, native to the Mediterranean and Middle East. In its original incarnation, nobody actually ...