Species of flowering plant
Cicerbita alpina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade :
Tracheophytes
Clade :
Angiosperms
Clade :
Eudicots
Clade :
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Genus:
Cicerbita
Species:
C. alpina
Binomial name
Cicerbita alpina
Synonyms [ 3]
Lactuca alpina (L.) A. Gray
Mulgedium alpinum (L.) Less.
Sonchus alpinus L. 1753
Aracium alpinum (L.) Monnier
Geracium alpinum (L.) Gren. & Godr.
Hieracium coeruleum Scop.
Mulgedium multiflorum DC.
Picridium alpinum (L.) Philippe
Sonchus alpestris Clairv.
Sonchus canadensis L.
Sonchus coeruleus Sm.
Sonchus montanus Lam.
Sonchus multiflorus Desf.
Sonchus pallidus Torr. 1826 not Willd. 1803 [ 2]
Sonchus racemosus Lam.
Cicerbita alpina , commonly known as the alpine sow-thistle or alpine blue-sow-thistle [ 4] is a perennial herbaceous species of plant sometimes placed in the genus Cicerbita of the family Asteraceae , and sometimes placed in the genus Lactuca as Lactuca alpina .[ 5] It is native to upland and mountainous parts of Europe.
It was once used as an herb in Sami cooking, and known as jierja .[ 6]
^ Collett, L. & Korpelainen, H. (2017). "Lactuca alpina " . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2018 .
^ The International Plant Names Index
^ The Plant List, Lactuca alpina (L.) A.Gray
^ BSBI List 2007 (xls) . Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland . Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17 .
^ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist [permanent dead link ]
^ Nilsson, Lena Maria; Dahlgren, Lars; Johansson, Ingegerd; Brustad, Magritt; Sjölander, Per; Guelpen, Bethany Van (18 February 2011). "Diet and lifestyle of the Sami of southern Lapland in the 1930s–1950s and today" . International Journal of Circumpolar Health . 70 (3): 301–318. doi :10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17831 . hdl :10037/4081 . ISSN 2242-3982 . PMID 21631968 .