''Lactuca raddeana'' is a species of
wild lettuce
Wild lettuce is a common name for several lactucarium-containing plants related to lettuce (''Lactuca sativa''). The name most often refers to ''Lactuca virosa'' (Europe, Asia, introduced to North America), though it may also refer to:
* ''Lactuc ...
native to Vietnam, eastern China, the Korean peninsula, the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan.
A biennial or perennial, growing to 2m, it has a very wide range of variation in leaf shape, across a spectrum from undivided leaves to pinnatipartite leaves.
It is edible but bitter.
Varieties
A variety is currently accepted:
*''Lactuca raddeana'' var. ''aogashimaensis''
(Kitam.) Katsuy.
References
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raddeana
Plants described in 1874