Today I'm harvesting my wild lettuce, also commonly known as opium lettuce, or poor man's lettuce, to make a medicinal tincture. I will have the tincture making video up soon. I've had a lot of comments regarding this plant, no it's not an opiate, it was reffered to as opium lettuce is the 1800s because it was used in place of opium because it's a potent pain reliver and sedative. The true species of opium lettuce is lactuca virosa, I have lactuca serriola. The serriola and canadensis can be use

Laitue vireuse (Lactuca virosa)... - Le Chemin de la Nature

Bitter Lettuce aka Poor Man’s Opium (Lactuca virosa) #gardening #Garden #food #forage | Prepper Kiwi

Is this wild lettuce?! #foraging #wildlettuce #lactuca #plantidentification #sonchus | Feral Foraging

Welcome back to Edible or Not! Today we're talking about prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola! To identify prickly lettuce, look for: ✅ Narrow, usually lobed leaves. ✅ Spines on leaf margin and midrib. ✅ small yellow ray flowers. ✅ Small, dandelion-like seed heads. ✅ Vertically oriented leaves. 👇 This wild lettuce often gets a bad wrap because of its bitter taste. There's a limited window to harvest these in the spring before they become bitter, but if you time it and look for plants growing in th

🌿 La laitue vireuse (Lactuca... - Le Chemin de la Nature