| Scientific Name: | Lactuca sativa |
| Common Name: | lettuce |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Oblong, Orbicular, Spatulate, Dentate, Entire, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Silver, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves colorful, mostly green reddish or rarely variegated, yellow, gold or bluish. | |