Lactuca raddeana
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Lactuca |
| Species: | L. raddeana
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| Lactuca raddeana | |
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List
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Lactuca raddeana is a species of wild lettuce native to Vietnam, eastern China, the Korean peninsula, the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan.[2] A biennial or perennial, growing to 2 m, it has a very wide range of variation in leaf shape, across a spectrum from undivided leaves to pinnatipartite leaves.[3] It is edible but bitter.
Varieties
[edit]A variety is currently accepted:[2]
- Lactuca raddeana var. aogashimaensis (Kitam.) Katsuy.
References
[edit]- ^ Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 19: 526 (1874)
- ^ a b c "Lactuca raddeana Maxim". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "Lactuca raddeana". Flora of China – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.