Biology:Lactuca pulchella
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Short description: Species of lettuce
| Lactuca pulchella | |
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| Flower and buds | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Lactuca |
| Species: | L. pulchella
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| Binomial name | |
| Lactuca pulchella DC.
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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]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lactuca pulchella DC.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:228194-1.
- ↑ "Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A.Mey.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:228306-1.
- ↑ John L. Strother, "Mulgedium pulchellum", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 19, 20 and 21, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=121301, retrieved 10 January 2021
- ↑ Brouillet L. et al. 2010+. "Mulgedium pulchellum (Pursh) G. Don". Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN). https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/taxon/3308.
- ↑ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 68.
Wikidata ☰ Q15593837 entry
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