Bitter Lettuce aka Poor Man’s Opium (Lactuca virosa) #gardening #Garden #food #forage | Prepper Kiwi

PRICKLY LETTUCE (Lactuca serriola)

Wild lettuce is a natural, non habit forming, alternative to narcotics and opioids that provides natural relief from physical pain, emotional pain, anxiety, insomnia, and so much more. A lot of people mistake this incredible plant ally as just another weed, I want to change that! 😊📚🐛 | Cedar and Moon Apothecary

Is this wild lettuce?! #foraging #wildlettuce #lactuca #plantidentification #sonchus | Feral Foraging

Welcome back to Edible or Not! Today we're talking about prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola! To identify prickly lettuce, look for: ✅ Narrow, usually lobed leaves. ✅ Spines on leaf margin and midrib. ✅ small yellow ray flowers. ✅ Small, dandelion-like seed heads. ✅ Vertically oriented leaves. 👇 This wild lettuce often gets a bad wrap because of its bitter taste. There's a limited window to harvest these in the spring before they become bitter, but if you time it and look for plants growing in th

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