Corn salad

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Corn Salad
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Corn Salad close up
Corn Salad close up
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Family: Valerianaceae
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Genus: Valerianella
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Species: V. locusta
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Valerianella locusta
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Corn salad (Valerianella locusta) is a small dicot annual plant of the family Valerianaceae. It is also called Lewiston cornsalad, fetticus, mache, mâche, doucette, rampon, rampien, lamb's lettuce, field salad (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldsalat), nüssli, nüsslisalat, and rapunzel.

Corn salad grows in a low rosette with spatulate leaves up to 15.2cm long.[1] It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green. In warm conditions it tends to bolt to seed.[2]

Corn salad grows wild in parts of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia.[3] In Europe and Asia it is a common weed in cultivated land and waste spaces. In North America it has escaped cultivation and become naturalized on both the eastern and western seaboards.[4]

Valerianella locusta line drawing showing its bolted state.

References

  1. Floridata: Valerianella locusta
  2. Plants for a Future: Valerianella locusta
  3. United States Department of Agriculture: Germplasm Resources Information Network
  4. United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service: Plants profile for Valerianella locusta

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