Synonym: Valeriana locusta; Valerianella olitoria.
English: Corn salad; Common cornsalad; Lamb's lettuce; Mâche fetticus; Feldsalat; Nut lettuce; Field salad; Rapunzel.
German: Rapunzel; Nüsslisalat; Nüssler.
French: Doucette; Raiponce; Mâche.
Region: Europe, northern Africa. western Asia; naturalized in north America.
Habitat: cultivated land, waste spaces.
Content: much vitamin C, beta-Carotene, B6, iron, potassium.
Culture: used as winter vegetable for centuries in France and Britain
Use: leaf vegetable in salads.
BotanySmall annual plant; grows as a weed in wheat fields; characteristic nutty flavour, dark green colour; soft texture.
Herb, hardy; with a low rosette.
Stems: much-branched.
Leaves: spatulate, up to 15.2 cm long.
Flowers: in comes; bluish-white corolla, 5 fused petals, 1.5 to 2 mm long and wide; 3 stamens; with a whorl of bracts.
Fruits: achenes with 2 sterile chambers and one fertile chamber.