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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...