BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Lactuca (lettuces)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
 |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Lactuca saligna L. (Least Lettuce) | 1 | 2 | ||
| Species | Lactuca sativa L. (Garden Lettuce) | 12 | |||
| Species | Lactuca serriola L. (Prickly Lettuce) | 1 | 4 | ||
| Species | Lactuca virosa L. (Greater Lettuce) | 3 | 10 | 4 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Oswald, P.H., 2007 | Lettuces don't read the Floras! |
Lactuca may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with Lactuca:
 |
leaf | leaf is mined by larva | Chromatomyia syngenesiae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) | 
|
Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine linear, whitish, both upper and lower surface] |
| leaf | leaf is mined by larva | Liriomyza strigata - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) |
|
Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine follows midrib with short offshoots along lateral veins] | |
|
leaf | leaf is mined by larva | Trypeta zoe - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) | 
|
White, I.M., 1988 |
Lactuca may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants) |
MAGNOLIIDAE (dicotyledonous flowering plants) |
ASTERACEAE (daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae) |
Lactuceae (“dandelions”) |
References
| Spencer, K.A., 1972 | Diptera: Agromyzidae |
| White, I.M., 1988 | Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) |
