Lactuca tenerrima

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|genus=Lactuca

|species=tenerrima

|authority=Pourr.Hist. & Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Toulouse 3: 321 (1788)

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• Cicerbita tenerrima Beauverd
• Lactuca segusiana Balb.
• Wiestia tenerrima Sch.Bip.

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Lactuca tenerrima is a species of wild lettuce native to southern France, Spain, the Balearic Islands, and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:228308-1 |title=Lactuca tenerrima Pourr. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=12 September 2020 }} Unlike other species in its genus Lactuca, even in its family Asteraceae, it does not produce bitter-tasting sesquiterpene lactones.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.bse.2009.02.001 |title=Systematic implications of sesquiterpene lactones in Lactuca species |year=2009 |last1=Michalska |first1=Klaudia |last2=Stojakowska |first2=Anna |last3=Malarz |first3=Janusz |last4=Doležalová |first4=Ivana |last5=Lebeda |first5=Aleš |last6=Kisiel |first6=Wanda |journal=Biochemical Systematics and Ecology |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=174–179 }}