Garlic Mustard

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Alliaria petiolata

Garlic mustard is also known as Jack-in-the-hedge, garlic root, penny hedge, poor man's mustard, jack-in-the-bush and Jack-by the-hedge.

This wildflower is an annual or biennial plant which grows 30 -100cm tall. It has broad heart-shaped or triangular leaves which have a toothed edge. The flowers are very small four-petalled and white, forming clusters.

Garlic mustard is not a native wildflower of the Western Isles.

Photography © Suzanne Harris
Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
19th June, 2007

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