Lactuca serriola

TaxID: 75943

Basic Information

Lactuca serriola

China lettuce, Prickly Lettuce, prickly lettuce

Lactuca serriola, also called prickly lettuce, milk thistle (not to be confused with Silybum marianum, also called milk thistle), compass plant, and scarole, is an annual or biennial plant in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It has a slightly fetid odor and is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops. It is the closest wild relative of cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). Lactuca serriola is native to Eurasia and north Africa, and has become naturalized elsewhere.

from Wikipedia

Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asterales

Asteraceae

Lactuca

serriola

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Lactuca serriola
c
(c) Ayotte@BY-SA
Lactuca serriola
c
(c) George F Mayfield@BY-SA
Lactuca serriola
c
(c) Ayotte@BY-SA
Lactuca serriola
c
(c) Lies Van Rompaey@BY-SA
Lactuca serriola
c
(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
China Quarantine pests 2021

Distribution (94 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

94
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Afghanistan Present —
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Page 1 of 10

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

Download CSV

Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCF_051521515.1 Chromosome 2552 163996 313855 0.978933811%

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR32708009 Leaf 6 - week - old - 28020325 China:Henan
SRR32708008 Leaf 6 - week - old - 22220941 China:Henan
SRR32708007 Leaf 6 - week - old - 21505797 China:Henan

DNA Barcodes (76 records)

View all

Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
YNPBP1044-24 - trnL-F 476 United States 2024-08-05 -
YNPBP1044-24 - rbcL 553 United States 2024-08-05 -
WAT320-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2012-07-30 43.53729, -80.1678
WAT320-12 - ITS2 350 Canada 2012-07-30 43.53729, -80.1678
WAT319-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2006-09-22 44.05, -79.4833
WAT319-12 - ITS2 350 Canada 2006-09-22 44.05, -79.4833
WAT318-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2012-08-15 44.3046, -79.5829
WAT318-12 - ITS2 350 Canada 2012-08-15 44.3046, -79.5829
WAT317-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2012-07-10 43.5, -79.9167
WAT317-12 - ITS2 350 Canada 2012-07-10 43.5, -79.9167
Page 1 of 8

Literature