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Pretty sure it is, what do yall think?
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Definitely looks like wild lettuce to me. Those spines on the underside are pretty distinctive.

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Yeah,  that what I had read.
I'll have to try it, boiled with butter.
There are only two of them,  so spreading them will be the priority.

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They are quite bitter, to most palates. I've only eaten it raw. Would be curious to hear how the boiled with butter approach turns out. If they're anything like the ones in my yard, spreading them should be almost effortless. Though some creature here really, really likes eating them. Never figured out if it was groundhog or deer. Or both.

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Prickly Lettuces!     Looks like a healthy one.   I have eaten these steamed with butter and raw.   Good either way.   A great medicine too.  

One of my earliest teachers of wild plants,  Jon Young says  "When you start to learn the wild plants you gotta get into bitter and sour."

I have noticed Prickly Lettuces and dandelions are much sweeter when growing in a hugel bed or other mineral rich garden system.


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The prickly lettuce in my yard is pretty mild when harvested at the rosette stage in spring. More palatable than dandelion, to my taste.  The young leaves are even ok raw.  Once it starts to send up a central stem, then it is more medicinal than edible, though

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Wow. I would never have guessed that was a wild lettuce. I know very little about plant ID, but it looked like a thistle of some kind.

I guess they're distantly related.

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