Boston lettuce
Tender salad leaves
Boston lettuce is a variety of butterhead lettuce with soft, loosely folded leaves and a mild, slightly sweet flavor.
The pale green heads are smaller and more delicate than iceberg or romaine, with tender leaves that bruise easily.
Also called butter lettuce or Bibb lettuce, though Bibb is technically a smaller cultivar: a salad of Boston lettuce with vinaigrette.
- butterheadTender, loose-leaf lettuce variety
- leafyHaving abundant foliage
- wrapsEncircles with covering
- sandwich wrapRolled flatbread meal
- light lunchModest midday meal
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- cultivarscultivar, Honeycrisp, Fuji apple, Gala apple, Granny Smith
- heirloom produceheirloom tomato, Brandywine, heirloom tomatoes, heirloom seeds, Rutgers
- lettuceromaine, iceberg, butterhead, looseleaf, green leaf
- Butterhead Lettucebutterhead, Tom Thumb
lettuce variety texture/structure
Boston lettuceiceberg lettuce
Compact, pale salad green
iceberg · romaine lettuce · romaine · radicchio · endive