West Highland Flora

Garlic Mustard


Alliaria petiolata

 

Alliaria petiolata

Photo © Carl Farmer
(8 May 2004 Inverness)

Scarce in Argyll, very rare elsewhere.  Common in much of Britain.  Shady roadsides etc.

Flower diameter c 5-7 mm

ID: Large inverted-heart-shaped leaves with large teeth, smelling of garlic when rubbed, small white flowers.

Other features: Stem usually unbranched, base-leaves and lower stem-leaves long-stalked.  Long pods on short (c 5 mm) thick stalks, curving upwards.  Herbaceous part is biennial, new shoots arise through buds on roots.

 

Alliaria petiolata

Photo © Carl Farmer
(8 May 2004 Inverness)

  Alliaria petiolata

Photo © Carl Farmer
16 Sep 2001 Broadford, Skye

 

Alliaria petiolata

Photo © Carl Farmer
(12 Jun 2002 Berwick-upon-Tweed)

  Alliaria petiolata

Photo © Carl Farmer
(12 Jun 2002 Berwick-upon-Tweed)


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