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Taxon:  Lactuca sativa L. var. capitata L. (Lactuca sativa Crisphead (Iceberg or Cabbage) and Butterhead Lettuce Groups)



Summary
Genus:
Lactuca
Section:
Lactuca
Family:
Asteraceae (alt. Compositae)
Subfamily:
Cichorioideae
Tribe:
Cichorieae
Subtribe:
Lactucinae
Nomen number:
21361
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:795. 1753
Comment:
[or L. sativa Crisphead (Iceberg or Cabbage) and Butterhead Lettuce Groups]
Verified:
02/23/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Lactuca sativa L. (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. angustana Irish (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa L. (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia Lam. (0 active accession[s])
Lactuca sativa L. var. sativa (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Lactuca sativa L. subsp. capitata (L.) Schübl. & G. Martens

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Reference(s)
  1. Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  3. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 4:2061. Note: treats as Lactuca sativa Butterhead and Crisphead Groups
  4. International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
  5. Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977-1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
  6. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
  7. Lebeda, A. et al. 2004. Geographical distribution of wild Lactuca species (Asteraceae, Lactuceae). Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 70:328-356
  8. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. Note: = Lactuca sativa, as Head or Cabbage Lettuce Group
  9. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  10. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  11. Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:187. Note: treats as Lactuca sativa Butterhead and Crisp Lettuce Groups
  12. Soó von Bere, K. R., ed. 1964-1980. A Magyar flora es vegetacio rendszertani-novenyfoldrajzi kezikonyve. Note: = Lactuca sativa subsp. capitata (L.) Alef.
  13. Vries, I. M. de. 1997. Origin and domestication of Lactuca sativa L. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:167. Note: = Lactuca sativa Butterhead and Crisphead Groups
  14. Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Common names
English
butterhead lettuce –
cabbage lettuce –
head lettuce –
iceberg lettuce –
German
Kopfsalat –
Italian
lattuga a cappuccio –
Transliterated Russian
laktuk kočany –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    only cult.
Cultivated (only cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodvegetableas L. sativa Head or Cabbage Lettuce GroupLiberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. Note: = Lactuca sativa, as Head or Cabbage Lettuce Group
Human foodvegetableused in saladsEncke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=21361. Accessed 26 April 2025.