Low riskEdible
Garlic mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Invasive. First-year rosette, second-year white four-petal flowers. Pull it and eat it.
- Marks
- Garlic smell; four white petals; long pods
- Size
- 1–3 ft
- Habitat
- Woods, trail edges, floodplains.
- Season
- Rosettes year-round; flowers April–May.
- Frequency
- abundant
Crushed leaves smell of garlic. Second-year plants are unbranched with triangular toothed leaves and four-petaled white flowers, then long skinny pods.
Uses
Pesto, pot herb. Pull before seed. Do not compost seeding plants.