Lactuca pulchella
Lactuca pulchella, known as blue lettuce, common blue lettuce, or wild blue lettuce, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae.[1] Some authors place it as a subspecies or variety of a broader concept of Lactuca tatarica, while others consider L. tatarica to occur only in Europe and Asia.[1][2] Lactuca pulchella (with L. tatarica and others) is commonly separated into the genus Mulgedium, as Mulgedium pulchellum.[3][4]
| Lactuca pulchella | |
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| Flower and buds | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Lactuca |
| Species: | L. pulchella |
| Binomial name | |
| Lactuca pulchella DC. | |
Uses
Among the Zuni people of New Mexico in the southwestern United States, the dried root gum of Lactuca pulchella has been used as chewing gum.[5]
References
- "Lactuca pulchella DC". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- "Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A.Mey". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- John L. Strother. "Mulgedium pulchellum". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). 19, 20 and 21. New York and Oxford. Retrieved 10 January 2021 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- Brouillet L. et al. 2010+. "Mulgedium pulchellum (Pursh) G. Don". data.canadensys.net. Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN). Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 68.
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