Corn Salad Valerianella locusta

 

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Description

Low/Short Anual, Flowers pale Lilac, leaves Lower leaves spoon-shaped, upper ones oblong Branched annual of dry, bare places on grassland and dunes. . Pale lilac flowers are borne in flat-topped clusters with leafy bracts beneath; seen April to August. tiny, in flat topped clusters , bare and cultivated ground , walls and dunes . Other very similar species below . The calyx does not persist on fruit in locusta ( fruit rounded ) ( in carnata - fruit oblong, ). In dentata, rimosa eriocarpa calyx does persist. Number of teeth on main calyx tooth 2, = 1/2, 3 = 0, 4 = 6.

Flowering April - August. Height up to 30cm

1. Valerianella carinata
2. Valerianella dentata
3. Valerianella rimosa
4. Valerianella eriocarpa

Data Tabl

19364 IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE
19367 IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE
19375 IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE
19378 1IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE
19379 1IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE
19384 IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE