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.

Producing rubber from lettuce Date: April 6, 2015 Source: Washington State University Summary: Prickly lettuce, a common weed that has long vexed farmers, has potential as a new cash crop ...

It’s called prickly lettuce, and gardeners are very familiar with it. It also seems to particularly like vacant lots and anywhere along freeways. The wild lettuce kind of looks like cultivated ...

Prickly Lettuce (Lactca serriola) is an annual that can also function as a biennial. It is native to the Mediterranean area and was likely introduced into the U.S. as a contaminate in seed.

Prickly lettuce (lactuca serriola), a weed widely found in Eastern Washington, synthesizes long-chain natural rubber, according to a study published in December 2014 in the Journal of Agricultural and ...

Turns out that “China lettuce” is merely ignorant slang for the plant called prickly lettuce, or as it is known in the scientific community Lactuca serriola, i.e. prickly lettuce in Latin.

Nikole also highlighted the medicinal benefits of prickly lettuce, which can help with pain relief and has mild sedative effects, earning it the nickname “opium lettuce.” She incorporates ...

The crew on board the International Space Station just got their first taste of locally-grown lettuce. The green (well, red) stuff in the astronauts’ salad bowls was a cultivar of a bright-red ...