Garlic Mustard

A garlicky mustard. Bi-ennial. Flowers, shoots and iconic leaf shape. Recognition Iconic jagged peaks on heart-shaped leaves. Stems are four-sided, smooth. Small white 4-petal flours. Leaves smell garlicy when rubbed. The flowers are slightly stinky. Long, narrow, beaked seed pods which ripen round about July. 1 Toxicity Edible – Hieronymus Bock said circa 1539 “a noble herb for green sauces” 2…