Entry Detail


wild lettuce


Entry Type:  
Species
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
wild lettuce
Myaamia Name:  
iihkimecinki
Harvest Seasons:  
Spring
Habitats:  
Dry Prairie grasslands, Wet Prairie grasslands with flooding, Human-Disturbed Areas

Media 
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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 Use - Food 

Raw leaves are eaten.

Dunn, J.P. 1919 Use - Food 

" . . . Godfroy's belief was that they did not use poke, mushrooms, or wild lettuce, until they learned to eat them from the whites. He was probably wrong as to this, as the instruction concerning the use of native plants came the other way".

Botanical Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 Habitat 

This genus includes a number of species occurring mostly in open and disturbed areas throughout eastern and western Myaamia lands.

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