Thank you, M'Lady, for so honoring me! And now we are all experts! Beautiful clear and concise video! I'm so enjoying your excellent work.

This has been the most important video on identifying wild lettuce. I now feel confident that I have sow thistle. Thank you!

I wish my mom was still here. I miss her so much and I’ve never been so much into foraging and gardening than I am now. It makes me feel like I’m with my mom spending time with her. I just wish I could talk to her about this stuff and the stuff I’m learning. I believe she’d be proud. She was so smart and most of all wise and very funny.

This is a great identification video. Thank you. In the late 80s, I worked on a large produce farm in Griffith, NSW, Australia. The family grew hundreds of acres of Rockmelon (Cantaloupe) for local and export to the US. They also had a contract with a seed company (Yates) to supply melon seed, as well as giving them some secure paddocks (fields) to grow lettuce seed. Only the most trusted employees could work on the lettuce field. Why? Lettuce seed was, at the time, worth about AUD7000 for a seed bag (2ft x 2ft x 3ft). Further, the fields were coded by the seed company so no one knew what variety was being grown. They also had armed security guards onsite 24/7, and we had an overseer who ensured we weren't stealing leaves or even entire plants to allow the competition to know what was being grown. We weren't allowed to carry a backpack with food and water in it, even though the paddocks were at least 25 acres apiece. We would have to walk back to the parking area for our lunch break. Yes, they were worried about industrial spies stealing unique hybrids. Our job was to deheart lettuce so that they would throw to seed. We would work a hundred-plus acre field, then a week or so later go through and deheart any that had not started to throw stems. When the fields were harvested and winnowed, all the machinery had to be hit with flame guns to burn off any seed before going to the next field with a different variety. It was pretty crazy.

When I have debilitating pain, my wild lettuce goes in my pain tea, along with spirea and chamomile flowers. I don’t take Rx. I don’t need to. Excellent presentation.

You have no idea how much you are appreciated OR how many folks lives will benefit from you just being born. Thank you my friend and God bless you.

Well done. This lettuce showed up in my yard 4 years ago and one plant, when it broke in the wind, measured 14 feet. There were a dozen plants that year and 30 the next. I wish all knowledge-providers were as succinct and informative as you were in this video.

Wonderful video, very detailed, and definitely meet the title! Very happy to see you mention the real concerns, too many people have jump on the "it's natural, it doesn't have side effects", forgetting even too much water can kill ya. Thanks.

Thank you for being one of the few that differentiate between sow thistle and wild lettuce. Too often they are referred to as one in the same. Even milk thistle is thrown in...3 plants as 1. Wish people would leave the topic alone if they don't know what they're talking about

Thank you for this. Your calm voice was very clear . No background noise to make it hard to understand. I really appreciated this very much.

I needed this lesson. I thought sow thistle was a type of dandelion,lol. Thank you for teaching real helpful things

All the domesticated leaf and head lettuces are very easy to find the seeds. I always suggest getting the seeds of your favorite greens and just broadcast them all over your field and let them take over. They will grow well and thick and take over. You don't even need to water them. They will all live off the dew. You will have all the greens you need or want. The same goes for onions and other garden plants that can grow wild. After all, every domesticated plant was once wild.

It is absolutely amazing on how complex plants are , just as every thing on earth . How everything is connected and has a purpose . A point i like to meantion is if it has a defensive characteristic like prickles or spines its protecting something valuable... For the most part . general tule of thumb

You give me the confidence of identifying these, as I have always been confused between these two. Huge thanks to you. Please make more video on similar topics.

Very informative. I want to learn more about the uses of these two plants. This was a good beginning. One or both randomly grow in my yard for years. I've always dug them up as weeds along with dandelions. Henceforth they will be given more respect.

Great content and much appreciated concern for those who might abuse Wild Lettuce. I have used WL in moderation for years now with great pain management success thanks to the knowledge of other great forages and plant purveyors such as Yarrow Willard master herbalist and Feral Foraging. Again, thank you for such great content !

I made tincture from the roots of wild lettuce and it certainly works well. As with most things, moderation is key. Great informative video, thank you.

This video is good timing for me, a new subscriber. I just transplanted a sow thistle, thinking it was wild lettuce. Your detailed video confirmed what I have learned about the difference between the two plants. I was able to forage some wild lettuce at an abandoned lot, after a rain, and I now have it setting up as a tincture.

Love the well detailed tutorial in identifying the plants 👍🏽

Thank you! I found a plant in my yard today I wondered about. I'll be checking it when I get home.

WOW!!!! GREAT video!!! The comparison is HUGELY helpful

Thank you for your amazing info, especially about the dangers, I've not heard of them before in any blog.

I’m glad I saw this because I think I have wild lettuce but now I think it’s sow thistle. And I was going to make a little tincture. I don’t want to be messing with the wrong plant . That could go wrong .

Love the format and no nonsense real information..👍

Excellent information. Just subbed and looking forward to learning more!

This is the best video I have found to help differentiate and identify these... thank you for your thoughtful detailed comparison!

I needed this. Thank you so very much!

Just came across this channel. Great video! I had been wondering the difference .

Lady you just saved me a whole bunch of time and effort! Thanks 🙏

Just ran across this video and canbnotbthanknyou enough for thebl simple and CLEAR identification. Been walking KY yard looking at my "weeds" and could not tell the difference! Hoping I have both in my yard

Thank you very much, this was exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you. I have both these plants in my yard and didn't know what either one was.👍

A wonderful presentation, clear and serene. I have thistles of various species. I'm new to your site, looking forward to learn more. Thank you.

Yes thank you Wayne for suggesting🙌 Happy to find & I sub her platform as I enjoyed her over all teaching. I grew up going to Canada for my summers, relatives. I still love Canadians. Love to all 💚💙

This is the best and easiest to understand I have seen yet.

Thank you so much for this video! I've been confused about wild lettuce since learning about it!

Wonderful video!! Thank you so much. Cud you do more of these?

When I studied herbs years ago I read that the ancient Romans recommended that women having problems producing enough milk to have a soup made from lettuce. It did not mention what kind of lettuce but it was prescribed to calm the women.

This was a nice, clear informative video. Good job!

Glad to find this channel … no bs just the facts! Love it Crazy amounts of wild lettuce here in SoCal … Subbed!

Terrific way to compare the leaves. Very helpful.

Dry informative you’re absolutely right I was watching on KZfaq and a commercial popped up of a lady that’s a herbalist and she explained how you could boil down the wild, lettuce, kind of fermented in the way and develop a painkiller and why it peaked my interest is because I’m a chronic pain sufferer and I take some pretty strong pain meds and I’ve been trying for a while to get off of them and go towards more natural healthier pain management, but you also have to think as you said there are many many things that could go wrong especially if it’s taken incorrectly, so you really opened my eyes up to this and have to do more investigation and know from certified herbalist the proper amount to take if this is what Im leaning towards for a stopping addictive pharmaceutical medications. Thank you so much for this video and your amazing information. You’ve open my eyes to the seriousness, and penitential harm that can be caused, that so many aren’t aware of. Thank you again.

That was great. Grateful for your teaching.

Thank you for this video! Cleared up my confusion!

Thank you so much for this video❣️ I’ve seen so many trying to distinguish between the 2 & still not clear. Yours is *definitive* . Great job. 💚

Thank You Very Much!!! That was very informative and just what I needed! And thank you Wayne as well! 😊

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

😮😮😮Thank you so much for this. I have been so confused for so long on what it is and how to identify it. Your video is very educational

Thank you for such an informative video. Never knew there was a difference, but I'm much wiser now. Would have been cooking sow thistle and would have thought but it doesn't work like they claim.

Excellent! Thank you (and Wayne). 💚

Awesome, perfect, simple, no n.s. just straight to the point 👍 beautiful thank you 🙏

Great video! Subscribed. Thank you and Wayne

Very good video on how to tell wild lettuce for sure !

Great information! Very thorough!

Thank you for such an excellent & credible tutorial. As an ND & student of herbology, I most appreciate this quality teaching. Definitely subscribing. 😊

Best identification videos on the internet 🥰

1 year later here i am learning to Eat what we have around hopefully i learn alot seeing these identification Characteristics...

A great identification video. Thank you.

Wow! Thank you, I have both of those in my yard, and I didn't know the difference. 👍

Superb. Factual and enlightening. I found accidentally and greatly appreciated

Thank you for sharing your in-depth knowledge.

Thank you both for this videoi was just out on a night walk and I love to forage and or study what I come across, I bought some wild lettuce seeds but didn't grow them this year and just found a sow thistle tonight, I was thinking out was the wild lettuce version as they seem to be more rounded at the tip I think we've got some prikley wild lettuce that has bred with sow thistle

Thank you for thos video, i have been interested in learning about wild lettuce for pain, i quit using big pharma meds years ago!

Just subscribed. Keep at it with these informative videos.

Thank you very much for this video. It was very helpful!

Wow I am so glad YT put this video on my feed. You did an excellent job of getting right to the point. The pictures, descriptions, comparisons, and info, so easy to absorb in my feeble brain. Nice job and thank you.

Really appreciate this video. I was wrong. Great help.

Great video explaining the difference!

SUPER helpful, thank you so much!

Thank you for a well done and calm presentation. I have not yet seen a video comparing these leaves other than Greene Dean’s that mentions the difference in the shape of the leaf at the clasp point. Your wild lettuce has arrowhead hind points that extend past the stem like wings, whereas sow thistle Sonchus clasps in a recurve under the leaf like a fiddlehead on either side. I do not know the technical correct terminology for those parts. I realize my Sonchus sow thistle variety in my southern state my have a more pronounced recurve than those in northern climes.

Very informative. Well done video. Great comparison. However, since it’s the first wild edible video I’ve stumbled across and I’m not familiar with the uses of the plants, I don’t know if they are both good, both bad, one is good and the other is bad so I don’t know how to file it in my brain as I watch it. A sentence or two at the beginning telling that would have been helpful. At around the 9:30 minute marker something is said about one being great in the kitchen, but I really needed that info in the first minute so I could memory peg it better. I look forward to other videos from this channel cuz it’s been a mild interest of mine since I read an article in the 1990s called Eat Your Weedies. Thank you for making this video!

Thank you for sharing!! I have both. Growing side by side!! This is important when also trying to harvest to make tinctures for pain.

Oh wow, thanks so much! I got a lot of sow thistle I thought was wild lettuce.

This is really helpful! Thank you :)

Thank you for making this.

Wow! Such a simple video but Soooo informative. Not to much information, just enough

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing

Great video, so helpful, thank you. 💚🌿

I definitely have Wild Lettuce because the plants in my garden are prickly!

Very informative and concise.

Oh... I think I might have put down a sheet of paper as background, rather than the weathered wood, which is beautiful (!) but striated, and thus harder on the eyes, and distracting, when trying to differentiate between two very similar plants! The dappled light doesn't help either! (So many times I have tried photographing something in this light and the outcome is disappointing!!). OTHERWISE, Wow!! OK... now I want to backtrack; I've watched the whole video and this is FABULOUS!! YOU ARE SO THOROUGH!!! Thank you! So informative/detailed. I feel more educated now... and I deeply appreciate your doing this for us! (Am going to subscribe).

Excellent! Thank you very much! I do believe I have a lot of sow thistle and dandelions😍

Many thanks. Great info!

But is also true that people are using it without harm. It is all about dosage, that is difficult to calculate because every plant has its own different percentage of compounds, given by the different area and soil. Someone suggested to start just with a drop and go on little by little until found the right dosage. I think that is the wisest thing to do, not to ditch the usage of the herb.

Very detailed. Thanks!!!!!

New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming

Excellent help with Identification. We need more look a like content.

Thanks for all the information didn't know there was a plant that looks like wild cabbage

You have the easiest to understand video Best Best ever info

Absolutely wonderful video! I've been watching a young plant in our back yard that I'm now thinking may be lactuca because of the spiny midrib.

Thank you made it easy to no the difference

This is so educational.... Thank you!

Thank you. I have dandelion, sow thistle, and wild lettuce in my yard. However, I thought they're all dandelions until recently 😂

Really great video, thank you so much xxx

Thank you for making this video those two are all over my yard and confused me.

Thanks so much for showing this..helpful video for me

I am in Australia and this was really interesting. Thank you

Excellent video, thank you.

VERY WELL DONE!

Very informative, thank you.