Index / Search / Lactuca hirsuta
§1 Plant
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.
vernacular hairy lettuce — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Lactuca
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 212 counties across 26 states/territories§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 212 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- Evangeline 22039
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Sabine 22085
- St. Mary 22101
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Clinton 36019
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Schenectady 36093
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
North Carolina view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Bertie 37015
- Burke 37023
- Carteret 37031
- Cherokee 37039
- Chowan 37041
- Granville 37077
- Halifax 37083
- Haywood 37087
- Hertford 37091
- Madison 37115
- Martin 37117
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Richmond 37153
- Sampson 37163
- Transylvania 37175
- Warren 37185
- Washington 37187
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LAHI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7521930 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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