Lactuca Virosa
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Lactuca_virosa (Wikipedia)
| Wild lettuce | |
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| Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Lactuca |
| Species: | L. virosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Lactuca virosa L. 1753 not Thunb. 1800 nor Luce nor Hablitz | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lactuca virosa is a plant in the Lactuca (lettuce) genus, often ingested for its mild analgesic and sedative effects. It is related to common lettuce (L. sativa), and is often called wild lettuce, bitter lettuce, laitue vireuse, opium lettuce, poisonous lettuce, tall lettuce, great lettuce or rakutu-karyumu-so.
