Years from now, you might read about a startup that’ll manufacture rubber tires from a common weed found in this state. It’s called prickly lettuce, and gardeners are very familiar with it. It also ...

A common, drought-resistant weed known as prickly lettuce, which tends to flourish across the Inland Northwest, could be turned into a new cash crop and possibly transform the region into a ...

PULLMAN, Wash.—Plant scientists have identified as many as 2,500 plants that produce at least some amount of natural rubber latex. However, only the rubber from the Heveatree has ever been widely used ...

Fall Weed Control: Prickly lettuce — all-season annual or biennial The issue: Prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola) is a non-native aster family weed that can germinate throughout the growing season, but ...

Repeated use of sulfonylurea herbicides in continuous, no-till winter wheat selected for a herbicide resistant biotype of prickly lettuce in Idaho. Greenhouse experiments were conducted to compare the ...

As a grower of small grains and seed crops, the article titled “China lettuce a challenging weed for many wheat farmers” caught my eye. Thinking it was a new Asiatic species introduced to our region, ...

Recently I wrote about some mystery plants in my yard. Well, they turned out to be wild lettuce. It might be one of a few wild species. The different species are so often confused, it's difficult to ...

Prickly Lettuce (Lactca serriola) is an annual that can also function as a biennial. It is native to the Mediterranean area and was likely introduced into the U.S. as a contaminate in seed. It invades ...