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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Lettuce, Chicory, Dandelion and Salsify Tribe
  8. Lettuce Subtribe

subtribe

Lettuce Subtribe

Lactucinae

Includes
8 native 5 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Wild Lettuces 8 native
  • Blue-sow-thistles
  • Mycelis
  • Purple Prenanthes

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native lettuce subtribe All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Canada Wild Lettuce Lactuca canadensis caterpillars 25 bees 1 hosts 2 food 6 flowers 28
  • Western Lettuce Lactuca ludoviciana caterpillars 23 bees 1 hosts 2 food 4 flowers 6
  • Tall Blue Lettuce Lactuca biennis caterpillars 22 bees 1 hosts 3 food 5 flowers 9
  • Common Blue Lettuce Lactuca pulchella caterpillars 22 bees 1 hosts 2 food 4 flowers 10
  • Grass-leaf Lettuce Lactuca graminifolia caterpillars 20 hosts 1 food 4 flowers 6
  • Tatarian Blue Lettuce Lactuca tatarica caterpillars 19 bees 1 hosts 2 food 4 flowers 22
  • Hairy Lettuce Lactuca hirsuta caterpillars 19 bees 1 hosts 2 food 4 flowers 6
  • Woodland Lettuce Lactuca floridana caterpillars 17 bees 1 hosts 3 food 4 flowers 37
  • American Blue Lettuce Lactuca oblongifolia

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