Lactuca sativa L.

This species is native to W Asia; introduced and cultivated world wide. (Ref. POWO; 2023). There are 5 species of Lactuca found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

Cultivated

علم تشكل النبات


Annual or biennial herb ; up to 1 m tall , glabrous . Stems erect . Leaves rosette ; basal leaves entire to pinnatifid , shortly petiolate ; stem leaves sessile , cordate-amplexicaul . Inflorescences numerous in dense paniculate . Flowers pale yellow , often violet-streaked . Fruit achenes , 6–8 mm long , body obovate in outline , 5–9-ribbed , beak as long as body . Seeds pappus , 3 mm long . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Evaluated (NE)

الوفرة


Not Common

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Lactuca sativa var. patula Stokes
Lactuca scariola subsp. sativa (L.) Bonnier & Layens
Lactuca scariola var. sativa (L.) Moris

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Lettuce
Common Lettuce
Garden Lettuce

الأسماء المحلية


khass (Arabic)

الاستخدامات


Not used traditionally.

المراجع


*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387.*https://en.wikipedia.org *http://southwestdesertflor *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

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