Garlic mustard, also known as Jack-by-the-hedge, is an unassuming plant with a powerful punch of garlic and mustard. This plant was introduced to the United States in the mid-1800’s, for food & medicine, and has since been creeping through the continent ever since. Garlic mustard is now considered an invasive species, a single plant can…
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Hairy Bittercress
Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, is one of the smaller wild mustards in the Brassicaceae family. Oddly enough, this plant is less hairy and bitter and more non-hairy and spicy! The hairs are very fine and without close inspection, you’ll miss them all together. Identifying Hairy Bittercress This plant consists of compound leaves with tiny leaflets…