How to Grow and Care for White lettuce

White rattlesnakeroot (Nabalus albus) is so named because, prior to modern medical treatments, the native Iroquois people used the plant's root to treat rattlesnake bites. White rattlesnakeroot plant grows widely in the northeastern USA and can be seen in woodlands and in man-made and disturbed habitats like road verges.

Found in woods, thickets and open slopes, the Nabalus trifoliolatus can grow to heights of 61 to 183 cm. Also called three-Leaved Rattlesnakeroot, it can be seen in the northeastern United States, throughout New England. Its young basal leaves and the new shoots are considered edible.

Nabalus tatarinowii is very similar to the recently-discovered species Nabalus muliensis, but you can tell the difference because that species has yellow flowers compared to this plant's purple or pink blossoms. It gets its Russian-sounding scientific name (Nabalus tatarinowii) in honor of the Russian botanist Alexander AlexejevitchTatarinow (1817 - 1886), who collected many plant species in eastern Asia.

The purple rattlesnakeroot species is distinguished from the other plants of its genus by its purple flowers with hairy bracts and smooth stems below the flower. The plant attracts a number of pollinators and insects, including bumblebees, beetles, moths, and wasps.

Nabalus asper (formerly Prenanthes aspera), commonly called the rough rattlesnakeroot or rough white lettuce, is a species of plant in the Asteraceae family occurring in the eastern United States from South Dakota and Pennsylvania south to Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alabama. This perennial plant blooms in late summer and autumn. In 2010, it was reclassified from the genus Prenanthes to Nabalus.