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''Lactuca aculeata'' is a species of wild lettuce native to Anatolia, the Levant, Iraq and Iran. A very prickly plant, it is closely related to ''
Lactuca serriola ''Lactuca serriola'', also called prickly lettuce, milk thistle (not to be confused with ''Silybum marianum'', also called milk thistle), compass plant, and scarole, is an annual or biennial plant in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asterac ...
'' (prickly lettuce) and '' Lactuca sativa'' (cultivated or garden lettuce), and can readily interbreed with them. It is possible that ''Lactuca aculeata'' contributed to the gene pool of cultivated lettuce.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q12210485
aculeata Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is the modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group cannot ...
Plants described in 1875