lettuce

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They banked almost 500,000 seeds from 19 species, including relatives of lettuce, parsnip, strawberry, radish, quinoa, blackberry, alfalfa and several species used as fodder crops for livestock.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Among her many years toiling in the fields, she cut and packed lettuce, picked cherries and planted watermelon seeds across the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Big bowls of iceberg lettuce dressed in Italian vinaigrette.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

New research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that certain crops -- tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce -- tend to store these chemicals mainly in their leaves.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

Mama looks up from the lettuce she’s cutting.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan