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§1 Plant

Lactuca floridana (L.) Gaertn. var. floridana

vernacular woodland lettuce — variety · Asteraceae


USDA
LAFLF
GBIF
3140423 syn.
Rank
variety
woodland lettuce (Lactuca floridana var. floridana)
Platephotograph · Robert Myers source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Lactuca
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b

County-level range

· 302 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 302 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 302 counties across 22 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 35 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 46 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 64 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 45 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 28 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LAFLF ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3140423 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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