Tuberous Lettuce / خس بري / / ذبح

هندباء / ذنبح

Lactuca tuberosa Jacq.

Leaves, February. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Delicious
Edible part
  • Leaves
Preparation
  • Salads
Blooming period
April to May
Foraging period
February to March
Seed collection period
June to August

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Light purple
Leaf type
  • Dissected
  • Pinnate
Life form
  • Hemicryptophyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Lactuca
Family
Asteraceae
Wikidata item
Q12210479
GBIF Item
Lactuca tuberosa Jacq. (8081558)
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least concern

References

  1. Imseeh Tesdell, O., Othman, A., Othman, Y., Dowani, Y., Shqeirat, R., Bamieh, Y., Tesdell, E., Khouri, S.(2018).Palestinian Wild food plants.Ramallah(English and Arabic)
  2. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).

Citation

Lactuca tuberosa Jacq. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/536 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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