Lactuca

Accepted species 121 Documented here 28 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 121 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Lactuca serriola L. 5,385 documented
Lactuca canadensis L. 664 documented
Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A.Mey. 579 documented
Lactuca floridana (L.) Gaertn. 534 documented
Lactuca biennis (Moench) Fernald 411 documented
Lactuca perennis L. 259 documented
Lactuca sibirica (L.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Maxim. 236 documented
Lactuca saligna L. 210 documented
Lactuca virosa L. 204 documented
Lactuca graminifolia Michx. 203 documented
Lactuca indica L. 149 documented
Lactuca viminea (L.) J.Presl & C.Presl 139 documented
Lactuca oblongifolia Nutt. 115 documented
Lactuca inermis Forssk. 97 documented
Lactuca macrophylla (Willd.) A.Gray 64 documented
Lactuca ludoviciana (Nutt.) Riddell 49 documented
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt. 29 documented
Lactuca plumieri (L.) Gren. & Godr. 29 documented
Lactuca quercina L. 29 documented
Lactuca tuberosa Jacq. 20 documented
Lactuca sativa L. 19 documented
Lactuca bourgaei (Boiss.) Irish & N.Taylor bis 17 documented
Lactuca racemosa Willd. 16 documented
Lactuca triangulata Maxim. 11 documented
Lactuca formosana Maxim. 7 documented
Lactuca tenerrima Pourr. 6 documented
Lactuca palmensis Bolle 5 documented
Lactuca raddeana Maxim. 5 documented
Lactuca longidentata Moris ex DC. 3 below the evidence gate
Lactuca aculeata Boiss. & Kotschy 1 below the evidence gate
Lactuca alpestris (Gand.) Rech.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Lactuca intricata Boiss. 1 below the evidence gate
Lactuca soongorica Regel 1 below the evidence gate
Lactuca × dichotoma Simonk. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca × favratii (Wilczek) B.Bock 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca × morssii B.L.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca acanthifolia (Willd.) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca adenophora Boiss. & Kotschy 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca alaica Kovalevsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca alpina Benth. & Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca amaurophyton (Podlech & Rech.f.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca ambacensis (Hiern) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca anatolica Behçet & Yapar 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca attenuata Stebbins 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca aurea (Sch.Bip.) Stebbins 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca azerbaijanica Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca boissieri Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca brachyrrhyncha Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca brassicifolia Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca calophylla C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca chitralensis (Tuisl) Ghafoor, Qaiser & Roohi Bano 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca cichorioides C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca corymbosa Lawalrée 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca crambifolia (Bunge) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca cubangensis (S.Moore) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca cubanguensis (S.Moore) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca deltoidea (M.Bieb.) C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca denaensis N.Kilian & Djavadi 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca dissecta D.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca dolichophylla Kitam. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca dumicola (Hiern) S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca elgonensis Stebbins 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca elongata Mulh. ex Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca erostrata Roohi Bano & Qaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca fenzlii N.Kilian & Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca garrettii Kerr 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca georgica Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca glandulifera Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca glareosa Schott & Kotschy ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca glauciifolia Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca gorganica Rech.f. & Esfand. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca gracilipetiolata Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca haimanniana Asch. ex E.A.Durand & Barratte 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca hazaranensis Djavadi & N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca hispidula (Regel) B.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca homblei De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca imbricata Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca kossinskyi (Krasch.) Coşkunç., M.Güzel & N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca lasiorhiza (O.Hoffm.) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca leucoclada Rech.f. & Tuisl 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca leucophaea Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca longispicata De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca malaissei Lawalrée 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca mansuensis Hayata 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca marunguensis Lawalrée 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca mira Pavlov 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca mulgedioides (Sch.Bip.) Boiss. & Kotschy 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca mwinilungensis G.V.Pope 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca olgae (Leskov) N.Kilian & Greuter 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca orientalis (Boiss.) Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca paradoxa Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca persica Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca petrensis Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca picridiformis Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca praecox R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca praevia C.D.Adams 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca pumila Rech.f. & Tuisl 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca putii Kerr 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca reviersii Litard. & Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca rostrata (Blume) Boerl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca rosularis Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca sagittarioides C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca sanguinea Bigelow 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca scarioloides Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca schulzeana Büttner 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca setosa Stebbins ex C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca songeensis C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca spinidens Nevski 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca stebbinsii N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca stipulata Stebbins 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca takhtadzhianii Sosn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca tetrantha B.L.Burtt & P.H.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca tinctociliata I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca tysonii (E.Phillips) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca ugandensis C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca undulata Ledeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca variabilis Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca watsoniana Trel. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca winkleri Kirp. 0 below the evidence gate
Lactuca zambeziaca C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.