Wild Lettuce

Wild Lettuce

An annual containing alkaloids, bitter latex, iron, triterpenes, and vitamins A, B1, B2, and C; it is antitussive and sedative, and has been used for anxiety, insomnia, and whooping cough. It has mild psychotropic (hypnotic/sedative) effects described as similar to opium
Toxicity Wild lettuce may be toxic in large doses

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wild

growing uncontrolled away from a domesticated environment. See under the name of the species, e.g. equid, sheep, swine, pig, turkey.

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wild amaranth

amaranthuscruentus.

wild arum

arummaculatum.

wild barley

see hordeum.

wild black cherry, wild cherry

prunusserotina.

wild bleeding heart

dicentraeximia.

wild boar

the commonest wild pig. Shaped like a domestic pig but lean, long-legged and mean. They can move very quickly and have formidable tusks in their bottom jaws. Their long, pointed snout enables the pigs to get through undergrowth better than any other animal. Called also Sus scrofa.

wild carrot

see daucus carota.

wild chervil

chaerophyllumsylvestre.

wild coffee

see cassiaoccidentalis.

wild cotton

see asclepias.

wild cotton bush

gomphocarpusphysocarpus.

wild cucumber

cucumistrigonus.

wild date

see fadogia homblei.

wild everlasting daisy

helichrysumargyrosphaerum.

wild flax

pimeleatrichostachya.

wild garlic

alliumursinum, A. vineale.

wild gooseberry

see nicandra physalodes.

wild grackle

see grackle.

wild ground cherry

see physalis.

wild heliotrope

heliotropiumeuropaeum.

wild hop

rumexvesicarius.

wild hyacinth

scillanonscripta.

wild indigo

see baptisia leucantha.

wild iris

see iris.

wild jasmine

cestrumdiurnum.

wild lettuce

see lactuca serriola.

wild lucerne

crotalariaglobifera, C. dura.

wild lupin

lupinuslaxiflorus.

wild mint

see perilla frutescens.

wild mustard

sinapisarvensis.

wild onion

alliumvalidum, dipcadiglaucum.

wild parsley

cymopteruslongipes.

wild parsnip

any of several plant species including trachymene, cicuta and a plant with the name Pastinaca sativa which is quite edible.

wild passion fruit

passiflorasubpeltata.

wild pea

lathyrusincanus, L. sylvestris.

wild pepper

daphnemezereum.

wild pineapple

see macrozamia.

wild potato bush

solanumesuriale.

wild radish

see raphanusraphanistrum.

wild red cherry

prunuspennsylvanica.

wild sorghum

sorghumverticilliflorum.

wild sunflower

see doronicum hungaricum, verbesina encelioides.

wild tobacco

see nicotiana.

wild tomato

solanumesuriale.

wild tree tobacco

solanummauritianum.

wild turnip

see rapistrum rugosum.

wild verbena

see verbenarigida.

wild watermelon

citrulluslanatus.

wild winter pea

see lathyrushirsutus.