Garlic Mustard 🌱 Aka jack by the hedge ☘️ A wild edible plant with a powerful flavour similar to garlic and mustard. This plant can be eaten fresh, added to salads and soups it's seeds make a mustard like sauce and it's roots can be used like horseradish 🥗 Rich in vitamin C this plant contains more vitamin C per gram than oranges and being an antiseptic herb it's good for treating wounds, coughs and sore throats 🤒 #garlicmustard #jackbythehedge #wildfood #wildmedicine #natureheals #foraging #

Garlic mustard, a Class A noxious weed, is a biennial or winter annual herb that generally grows 2-3 (up to 6) feet tall. Lower leaves are kidney-shaped with scalloped edges. Leaves feel hairless, and the root has an "S" or "L" shape just below the stem base. In spring, roots and new leaves smell like garlic, and small, four-petal white flowers appear clustered at stem ends, followed by long, skinny seedpods. This weed spreads by seed and can self-pollinate, helping it rapidly displace native pl