07/07/2022
It may not seem like lettuce and sunflowers have much in common, other than the fact that they're both plants and they both have leaves. Frankly, there are plenty of ways that they're quite different. For instance, lettuce grows close to the ground while sunflowers reach rather impressive heights. Despite those differences, lettuce is of the Lactuca genus, which is a member of the Asteraceae family, also known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family. Who knew?!