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Garlic mustard

Alliaria petiolata

Low riskEdibleabundant

Invasive. First-year rosette, second-year white four-petal flowers. Pull it and eat it.

Crushed leaves smell of garlic. Second-year plants are unbranched with triangular toothed leaves and four-petaled white flowers, then long skinny pods.

Habitat
Woods, trail edges, floodplains.
Season
Rosettes year-round; flowers April–May.
Size
1–3 ft
Field marks
Garlic smell; four white petals; long pods

Use

Pesto, pot herb. Pull before seed. Do not compost seeding plants.