Lactuca L.
(lettuces)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Lactuca saligna Least Lettuce	Species			1 ident. refs
Lactuca sativa Garden Lettuce	Species		8 images
Lactuca serriola Prickly Lettuce	Species	1 subtaxa	7 images	1 ident. refs
Lactuca virosa Greater Lettuce, Great Lettuce	Species		15 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Lactuca (lettuces)
Tribe	Lactuceae (“dandelions”)
Subfamily	LACTUCOIDEAE (“dandelions”)
Family	ASTERACEAE (daisies, dandelions and thistles, composite)
Order	ASTERALES (daisies, dandelions, thistles and bell flowers)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Lactuca is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants - herbaceous plants (via Asteraceae)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Oswald, P.H.	2007	Lettuces don’t read the Floras!	BSBI News 106: 7-8, colour section plates 2 & 3.

Lactuca (lettuces) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Lactuceae
(“dandelions”)

ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles, composite)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Lactuca (lettuces)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 56 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Lactuca (lettuces)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Lactuca is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)