Lactuca pulchella

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Lactuca pulchella
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Lactuca
Species:
L. pulchella
Binomial name
Lactuca pulchella
DC.

Lactuca pulchella, known as blue lettuce, common blue lettuce, or wild blue lettuce, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. [1] Some authors place it as a subspecies or variety of a broader concept of Lactuca tatarica , while others consider L. tatarica to occur only in Europe and Asia. [1] [2] Lactuca pulchella (with L. tatarica and others) is commonly separated into the genus Mulgedium, as Mulgedium pulchellum. [3] [4]

Uses

Among the Zuni people of New Mexico in the southwestern United States, the dried root gum of Lactuca pulchella has been used as chewing gum. [5]

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References

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  2. "Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A.Mey". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. John L. Strother. "Mulgedium pulchellum". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 19, 20 and 21. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 January 2021 via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  4. Brouillet L. et al. 2010+. "Mulgedium pulchellum (Pursh) G. Don". data.canadensys.net. Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN). Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  5. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 68.