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§1 Plant

Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A. Mey. var. pulchella (Pursh) Breitung

vernacular blue lettuce — variety · Asteraceae


USDA
LATAP
GBIF
3140419 syn.
Rank
variety
blue lettuce (Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella)
Platephotograph · Степан ГребневCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 317 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 317 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 317 counties across 16 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 5 N
Illinois view state ↗ 6 N
Iowa view state ↗ 14 N
Kansas view state ↗ 32 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N
Maine view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 46 N
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N
Montana view state ↗ 44 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 45 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 15 N
New York view state ↗ 2 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 48 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 50 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LATAP ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/3140419 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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