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The genus Lactuca is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lactuca

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Lactuca acanthifolia (Willd.) Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca acuminata Spreng.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca adenophora Boiss. & Kotschy	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca alpestris (Gand.) Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca alpina (L.) A.Gray	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca ambacensis (Hiern) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca attenuata Stebbins	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca aurea Stebbins	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca biennis (Moench) Fernald	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca boissieri Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca bourgaei (Boiss.) Irish & Taylor	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca calophylla C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca canadensis L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca cichorioides (Hiern) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca corymbosa Lawalrée	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca crambifolia (Bunge) Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca cubanguensis (S.Moore) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca cyprica (Rech.f.) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca deltoidea (M.Bieb.) DC. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca denticulata (Houtt.) Maxim.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca dissecta D.Don	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca dolichophylla Kitam.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca dregeana DC.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca dumicola (Hiern) S.Moore	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca fenzlii N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca floridana (L.) Gaertn.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca georgica Grossh.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca glandulifera Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca glareosa Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca glauciifolia Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca graciliflora Wall. ex DC.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca graminifolia Michx.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca haimanniana E.A.Durand & Barratte	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca henryi Dunn	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca hispida DC.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca homblei De Wild.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca imbricata Hiern	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca indica L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca inermis Forssk.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca intricata Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca jamaicensis Griseb.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca kanitziana Martelli	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca kochiana Beauverd	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca lasiorhiza (O.Hoffm.) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca leucophaea A.Gray	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca longespicata De Wild.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca ludoviciana (Nutt.) Riddell	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca macrophylla (Willd.) A.Gray	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca madatapensis (Gagnidze) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca malaissei Lawalrée	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca marschallii Stebbins	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca marunguensis Lawalrée	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca microcephala DC.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca mira Pavlov	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca morssii B.L.Rob.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca mulgedioides (Vis. & Pančić) Boiss. & Kotschy ex Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca muralis (L.) Fresen.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca mwinilungensis G.V.Pope	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca olgae (Leskov) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca orientalis (Boiss.) Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca palmensis Bolle	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca paradoxa Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca parishii Craib	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca perennis L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca persica Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca petrensis Hiern	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca plumieri (L.) Gren. & Godr.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca polyclada Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca praecox R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca praevia C.D.Adams	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca pulchella (Pursh) DC.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca quercina L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca racemosa Willd.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca raddeana Maxim.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca rechingeriana (Tuisl) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca repens (L.) Benth. & Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca reviersii Litard. & Maire	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca roborowskii Maxim.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca rostrata (Blume) Boerl.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca rosularis Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca saligna L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca sativa L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca schulzeana Büttner	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca serriola L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca setosa Stebbins ex C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca sibirica Benth.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca singularis Wilmott	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca songeensis C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca sororia Miq.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca spinidens Nevski	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca stebbinsii N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca stelbinsiana N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca stipulata Stebbins	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca stolonifera (A. Gray) Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Lactuca takhtadzhianii Sosn.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca taraxacifolia Khalk.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca tenerrima Pourr.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca tetrantha B.L.Burtt & P.H.Davis	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca tinctociliata I.M.Johnst.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca triangulata Maxim.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca triquetra (Labill.) Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca tuberosa Jacq.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca tysonii C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca ugandensis C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca undulata Ledeb.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca variabilis Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca viminea (L.) J.Presl & C.Presl	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca virosa L.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca winkleri Kirp.	Accepted		TICA
Lactuca zambeziaca C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 578 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lactuca. Of these 113 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 108 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lactuca. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 578 species names for the genus Lactuca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	113	19.6%
◕	Synonym	234	40.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	231	40.0%

All names

The status of the 686 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lactuca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	122	17.8%
◕	Synonym	328	47.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	236	34.4%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 7 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 578 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lactuca, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	103	198	0	0	301	52.1%
	Low confidence	10	36	0	231	277	47.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Lactuca, are as follows: