Plant library · Vegetables
Lettuce (Looseleaf)
Lactuca sativa
Quick cool-season green; partial shade in heat; sow succession and cut-and-come-again.
Sunlight
Partial Sun
Water
Regular
USDA zones
3–11
Spacing
0.6 ft
Mature size
0.8 ft tall, 0.8 ft wide
Harvest
Spring - early summer, fall
Growing facts
- Botanical name
- Lactuca sativa
- Type
- Vegetable
- Category
- Vegetables
- Lifecycle
- annual
- USDA hardiness zones
- 3–11
- Sunlight
- Partial Sun
- Water
- Regular
- Plant spacing
- 0.6 ft
- Mature size
- 0.8 ft tall, 0.8 ft wide
- Days to maturity
- 45
- Harvest season
- Spring - early summer, fall
- Pollinator friendly
- No
- Deer resistant
- No
- Native to North America
- No