Valerianella carinata
Keeled-Fruited Cornsalad
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Taxonomy and growth
- Family
- Valerianaceae
- Genus
- Valerianella
- Life cycle
- annual
- Fertility
- self fertile
- Flower type
- hermaphrodite
- Pollinators
- Self
Uses
Edible uses
Young leaves - raw[2].
- Plant part
- Leaves
Environment
- Range
- Central and southern Europe, including Britain, to N. Africa and the Caucasus.
- Habitat
- Arable land, banks, old walls and rocky outcrops[3].
- Light
- full sun
- Shade tolerance
- no shade
- Water
- moderate
- Soil textures
- sandy, loamy, clay
- Soil pH
- acid, neutral, alkaline
- Tolerates Nutritionally Poor Soil
- No
- Drought
- intolerant
Propagation
Seed - in order to obtain a continuous supply of salad leaves, it is best to sow the seed successionally from early spring to late summer in situ. A late summer sowing might also succeed, and this would supply edible leaves in the winter.
Cultivation
An easily grown plant, it prefers a fairly rich light soil[1].
References
F. Chittendon. RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 Oxford University Press 1951-00-00
Tanaka. T. Tanaka's Cyclopaedia of Edible Plants of the World. Keigaku Publishing 1976-00-00
Clapham, Tootin and Warburg. Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press 1962-00-00
? Flora Europaea Cambridge University Press 1964-00-00