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

Walnuts, avocados, peaches, lettuce, beans, grapes, tomatoes, olives, berries, onions, and, from La Mirada to Malibu, fields of commercial flowers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

In the early 1970s, he launched a nationwide boycott of iceberg lettuce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Big bowls of iceberg lettuce dressed in Italian vinaigrette.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

On Saturdays and Sundays we continued working in the fields, picking carrots and thinning lettuce.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez