This cool season annual vegetable has an upright habit with leafy stems that appears after forming a leafy rosette (garden lettuce). The rounded to oblong leaves are bright green with a crisp texture and the tiny daisy-like mauve or yellow flowers appear during summer.  

Hardiness zones 7 to 12 

Lactuca sativa is natauraly found in Eurasia and consists of 5-main types and grow in friable well-drained fertile moist soils with a pH of 6 to 7. It prefers a sunny to semi shade position with protection from hot summer sun and is drought and frost tender. 

Lettuce is a popular vegetable that is grown for its tender editable leaves and is planted in vegetable gardens, raised garden beds or pots and planter boxes. It is commercially grown both outdoors and under glass hydroponically. It establish in 3-weeks and maturing in 10 weeks but runs to seed quickly in warm weather. ID 1511

Lactuca (lăk-TOO-ka) sativa (sa-TEE-va)

Asteraceae (ass-ter-AY-see-ee)	
(Compositae)
Sunflower Family