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Lactuca perennis

Perennial

HomePerennialLactuca perennis

Rocky or other dry places, especially on calcareous soils.

Family: Asteraceae
Height: 0.6 m / 2 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: of 5

Native Habitat

Perennial Lettuce Lactuca perennis native habitat is Rocky or other dry places, especially on calcareous soils.

Edible Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked. The leaves are often blanched to reduce any bitterness. They are fairly acceptable raw in salads (even without being blanched), especially in late winter and spring when the flavour is quite mild. The leaves do become much more bitter in the summer, however, especially as the plant comes into flower.

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