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Alliaria petiolata, or garlic mustard, is a biennial flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae).It is native to Europe, western and central Asia, north-western Africa, Morocco, Iberia and the British Isles, north to northern Scandinavia, [2] and east to northern Pakistan and Xinjiang in western China.
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) was introduced to North America as a culinary herb in the 1860s and it is considered an invasive species in much of North America. As of 2020 [update] it has been documented in most of the Eastern United States and Canada, with scattered populations in the west. [ 1 ]
Not to put too fine a point on it, garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, is a bad actor. That is, at least in North America. ... Garlic mustard is a biennial plant (possessing a two-year life cycle ...
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) A noxious weed that spreads by seed, garlic mustard emits a garlicky smell when it’s crushed. This type of weed can grow two to four feet tall and threaten ...
Alliaria petiolata, more commonly known as garlic mustard, is an example. [7] Because this species is closely related to host mustards of P. oleracea , it is very similar to their commonly eaten plants, so these butterflies often feed on the toxic species.
Garlic mustard is one of the first plants to appear in the spring and has earned top rank as one of the states worst invasive plants by the Indiana Invasive Species Council.
Purple winter creeper (Euonymus fortunei) and garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) currently threaten the forest. It is expected to take thousands of hours of labor to control these invasive species. It is expected to take thousands of hours of labor to control these invasive species.
Although it can be cross-pollinated, Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) is self-fertile. Most species reproduce sexually through seed, but Cardamine bulbifera produces gemmae and in others, such as Cardamine pentaphyllos, the coral-like roots easily break into segments, that will grow into separate plants. [8]