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 ...

The lettuce I'm harvesting for salads this year has been growing virtually wild and almost ignored in my garden for the better part of a decade, reseeding itself the whole time.

Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Natural remedies like medicinal plants have been used by people for many years in attempts to treat a variety of symptoms and alleviate pain. Wild ...

Years from now, you might read about a startup that’ll manufacture rubber tires from a common weed found in this state. It’s called prickly lettuce, and gardeners are very familiar with it. It ...

Prospecting for a plateful of wild lettuce with Langdon Cook. By Seattle Mag March 18, 2013. This article originally appeared in the March 2013 issue of Seattle magazine. A millworker’s discovery of ...