Taxon: Lactuca saligna L.

Common names:

• least lettuce   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• narrow-leaf lettuce   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wild lettuce   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• willow lettuce   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• willow-leaf lettuce   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• weidenblättriger Lattich   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: disease resistance for lettuce   (for downy mildew resistance fide Theor Appl Genet 116:845-857. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of lettuce   (fide Lindqvist, Hereditas 46:321. 1960; Amer J Bot 85:1528. 1998, for GP2)
  
• Weed   (found in waste places fide F CalifJep)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands [extirpated?]; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Montenegro
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada [s.e.]
  Mexico
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Uruguay

References:

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• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Feráková, V. 1977. The genus Lactuca in Europe. 69–71.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Jeuken, M. J. W. 2008. Efficient QTL detection for nonhost resistance in wild lettuce: backcross inbred lines versus F2 population. Theor. Appl. Genet. 116:845–857.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lebeda, A. et al. 2004. Geographical distribution of wild Lactuca species (Asteraceae, Lactuceae). Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 70:328–356.
• Lindqvist, K. 1960. On the origin of cultivated lettuce. Hereditas (Beijing) 46:319–350.
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999
• van Treuren, R. et al. 2011. Genetic resources collections of leafy vegetables (lettuce, spinach, chicory, artichoke, asparagus, lamb's lettuce, rhubarb and rocket salad): composition and gaps. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. DOI 10.1007/s10732–011–9738–x.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lactuca saligna.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lactuca saligna.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lactuca saligna.

Check other web resources for Lactuca saligna L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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