BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Lactuca (lettuces)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
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:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Lactuceae
(“dandelions”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Lactuca:

Photos leaf leaf is mined by larva Chromatomyia syngenesiae - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) UK/Ireland 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) UK/Ireland Spencer, K.A., 1972 [mine follows midrib with short offshoots along lateral veins]
Photos leaf leaf is mined by larva Trypeta zoe - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign 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)

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