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Siberian lettuce

Lactuca sibirica

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 271, February 200, March 314, April 493, May 711, June 776, July 830, August 714, September 524, October 391, November 214, December 167.
United States5,604
Alaska5,604
Russia1,940
Irkutsk Oblast337
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra259
Kamchatka Krai196
Tyumen Oblast148
Sverdlovsk Oblast145
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug111
Buryatia80

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Crop wild relativeListed as a crop wild relative or crop gene source by a harvested source.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
Genuswild lettuces · Lactuca

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Siberian lettuce with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.