Lactuca virosa

Wild lettuce
Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Lactuca
Species:
L. virosa
Binomial name
Lactuca virosa
L. 1753 not Thunb. 1800 nor Luce nor Hablitz
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy
  • Lactuca ambigua Schrad.
  • Lactuca flavida Jord.
  • Lactuca lactucarii Lamotte
  • Lactuca patersonii Menezes
  • Lactuca romana Garsault
  • Lactuca schimperi Jord.
  • Lactuca serratifolia Sennen
  • Lactuca sinuata Forssk.
  • Wiestia virosa (L.) Sch.Bip.
Lactuca virosa

Lactuca virosa is a plant in the Lactuca (lettuce) genus, often ingested for its mild analgesic and sedative effects.[2] It is related to common lettuce (L. sativa), and is often called wild lettuce, bitter lettuce, laitue vireuse, opium lettuce, poisonous lettuce, tall lettuce, great lettuce[3] or rakutu-karyumu-so.

  1. ^ The Plant List, Lactuca virosa L.
  2. ^ Wesołowska, A.; Nikiforuk, A.; Michalska, K.; Kisiel, W.; Chojnacka-Wójcik, E. (2006). "Analgesic and sedative activities of lactucin and some lactucin-like guaianolides in mice". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 107 (2): 254–8. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2006.03.003. PMID 16621374.
  3. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.