Salad / Prickly Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh & more
How to identify Salad
Identify Salad by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glaucous (waxy blue-grey bloom).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In India, compare location records such as Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Salad.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Lactuca sativa
- Genus
- Lactuca
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glaucous (waxy blue-grey bloom)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Salad itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Salad itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Salad
About Salad
Prickly lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is a species in the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh and 2 other states.
Uses
Locally it is grown for parts that are eaten, long used in traditional medicine and stripped for fibre used in rope and matting. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
In culture
It is treated as sacred and appears in worship and turns up in ritual and festival use.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Salad belongs to the Asteraceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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Common plant problems
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