How To Identify Prickly Lettuce, Lactuca serriola
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Hey guys in this video we'll take a look at Prickly Lettuce, or Lactuca serriola. Prickly lettuce is an extremely easy plant to identify and is commonly found along the edges of lawns, roadsides and in fields or clearings. Often growing to a height of 5 feet or more, Prickly Lettuce blooms anywhere from April all the way through August with it numerous yellow ray like flowers. The flowers will have anywhere from 15 to 20 petals and there will be multiple flowers per plant. The leaves grow in an alternate pattern and are deeply lobed, but there are some other variations you'll be likely to find on the plant. The basal leaves in the early spring are usually not lobed but as the plant matures the deeply lobed leaves start to appear. From the ground the leaves are rather large but further up you go they get smaller and will start to lose there lobed shape, turning into an oval or egg shape. This plant gets its name from the stiff spines that run along the midvein on the underside of the leaf and on the margins as well as the stem. After the plant flowers and goes to seed, you'll notice the white fluff with the seeds at the base, a lot like dandelion seeds. The leaves of wild lettuce can be used for food by simply boiling them for a few minutes and treated like spinach greens. The flower buds, before the flowers appear, can be boiled for a few minutes and served like a broccoli. Medicinally this plant is used as a pain reliever and there's various methods to get this effect. One is simply making a tea from the leaves.
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I love the straight forward, non distracting education you are giving us.
Thank you I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
@@TrilliumWildEdibles Can you eat all wild lettuce and if so do you have to boil them or can you just eat it anyway you want?thanks
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Excellent video to identify prickly lettuce. I thought I had some growing in amongst my regular lettuce but this has helped me be able to tell the difference. Thank you
I love this channel thank you I found wild spearmint today and a large grove of Mullein!
Glad you like the channel! Congrats on finding those, they're great plants!
I pulled out tons from my daughter's flowerbed when I was weeding for her. Yes, I made 3 jars of tincture 😁.
Next I have to go get some of her Sweet Annie and figure out what the other plant is I did not pull. Quite a bit of new poison ivy , so it was easy to get out. Need to find me some teasel.
That milky sap on warts, dandelion sap has been used for warts as well.
I find it exciting and amazing to get to identify all those beneficial weeds!
Oh nice! The tincture is pretty awesome stuff! Very relaxing. Yep, it seems most plants with a sticky sap have been used for that. Milkweed, dandelion, Lactuca species, pine, thistles and more! Always love seeing you in the comments!
@@TrilliumWildEdibles yes, I heard about milk weed sap too - then I read that it should be washed off right away if it gets on your skin.... hmmm I can say I had it on hands and arms and it did me no harm. Thanks for your lessons! They either teach me something new or reinforce/ bring back to mind what I know.❤
Definitely appreciate the video been wanting to make a tinture. Have ghost pipe and turkey tail and Mullen about ready.
Nice! Were you planning on combining all of them in one tincture or you keeping them separate?
Yes I learn a lot from watching your videos thank you for sharing I would like to know more on how to make pain medicine
One of my favorite weeds 🥰
It's a great plant for sure!
That wild lettuce takes over my garden.
Noticed that my leaf lettuce as it goes to seed has similar bitter white lactate. Any possibility it has some of the same benefits?
Thank you for the informative video! You mention that the leaves and the unopened flower buds can be boiled and eaten. I was wondering if you can also eat it raw, in salads or snoothies? Also, do you know if there are any safety concerns about toxicity when using it as feed for livestock? I am asking this because this spring, I had two goslings that I fed the leaves of this lettuce to. They absolutely loved them, but then they both inexplicably died! Any thoughts on that? Thank you!
Excellent description Thank you so much
Excellent video. Totally enjoyed. Thank you.
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
You're very welcome!
Thank you again!
You're very welcome!
Is wild lettuce the same thing as tall blue lettuce and if not can they both be used for the same things?
They are different plants but have the same uses. Blue lettuce is a bit stronger and more bitter so keep that in mind.
Are the stalks solid or hollow?
Great video.
Good job very
thanks for sharing
What are those skinny stalky looking thing in the background.. I'm speaking on the other tall plants in the background this kind of skinnier but really tall
Mine looks exactly like that but no prickles on the back of the leaves? Is this a different variation? It matches in every other way. I am in NE Wisconsin. Shows on Wisconsin map we have them in this area.
i think what you have is called sow thistle.prickly lettuce will always have prickles on the back of the spine.i just made some tincture for myself,i hope you find what you are looking for.i also live in wisconsin.
I have a video on spiny leaf sow thistle you can find here.
czcams.com/video/YMHb2mvS1m4/video.html
There are other lettuce species that don't have spines but are still useable in the same way they just dont have the spines.
@@TrilliumWildEdibles I think you are right, probably sow thistle, but the sap helped my insomnia. Placebo effect maybe?😊
You've chosen a variety of interesting foraging subtopics for your channel making it stand out in a good way. That said there is one issue. You spend up to entire videos holding onto a plant people are trying to see. Keep hands out of the shot please as it's nothing but distracting. But, again, overall great job and compelling topics with hopefully more to come.
Pulled a young one out of my yard the other day. Shame.
😂
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You're very welcome!
I live in Southern Ohio and you're more than welcome to come and stay a weekend I live on 400 Acres .
My husband and I would thoroughly enjoy it.
I have yet to come across a strain of this with the spikes on the underside of the leaf rib, spikey leaves and all the other characteristics, but no rib spikes.
We have it in Texas. Very spiked almost thorny.
Whats difference in sow thistle?
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I am having a HORRIBLE TIME telling if what I have is PRICKLY LETTUCE I'm in Upstate NY and the flowers on end look EXACTLY like this, leaves are slightly diff, narrower, just appear a tad diff!! I need help
2)ALSO, it us late in the season so they are dry and the white puffs flowers along w the yellow ones. . I am trying to make a tincture and need help b4i make the TINCTURE OUT OF THE WRONG PLANT🤦🏼♀️🥺
We have wild lettcus in Ms.
I was pulling weed to start my garden this spring and came upon a weed that explodes or rather pops seed upon contact like fire crackers. I wonder if you might know what this weed is. Unfortunately, I didn't think to get photos but the plants are lower to the ground
Is it short and clover looking leaves? Yellow(flower) Wood Sorrell seed pods do that. . Wood Sorrell is lemon zesty to eat, I love it, but high in oxalic acid.
There's another weed that shoots seeds, but I can't recall it, its been years since I've seen one.
Sounds like Jewelweed or touch me not by another common name, Impatiens capensis by it's latin name. It has seedpods that do exactly like what you're describing. I have an identification video on it on my channel if you're interested.
@@thebandplayedon..6145 It did look like clovers and had yellow flowers. Thank you so much
@@TrilliumWildEdibles Thank you
Hey Josh, do you know if serriola, before it's sets flowers and such, still produces it's medicinal effects? I've been looking and haven't seen anything on it...
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Have seen in multiple sources that the medicinal qualities are more effective after the plant has gone to flower...have you personally found this to be true?
Yes it seems that way for me.
What about eating the leaves raw? I like the taste but is it ok?
It's totally safe to eat raw.
I want to harvest lots of leaves to make medicine 💊
I need to know how to do this.Where do I look? I have "Lost Boom of Herbal Remedies" by Nicole Pelian,Ph.D. In it it says to fill container with wild lettcus leaves and cover with Volka and shake every day.I want more! I have several plants on my property.
Can they have red and purple flowers
No, you're probably seeing a type of thistle if those are the flower colors you're seeing.
Does this grow in the Northeast? Thanks.
Yes it does, it grows all over most of the U.S.
Thanks! I’ll be on the lookout.
5 minutes,excuse me, you never eat the part of the plant,….you stemmed
Yes it only takes about 5 minutes to cook them. I didn't show it for a few reasons: 1 - this video was filmed about 40 minutes from my house and 2 - there really wasn't enough to cook up in this location. 3 - this video is mainly for identification purposes and to get an idea of how they're used. Lastly 4 - preparation videos don't always perform well and are a challenge to film. I might do a video next year on eating the flowerbuds but I've already done one on the leaves.
Mine looks like that but the stems are purple. Anyone know what that is?
That most likely is Lactuca verosa. The lactuca serriola does not get reddish stems.
Any lookalikes?
My leaves are wide r
I thought those were seeds! I Ieft them on the plant.
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