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Brassicaceae (/ ˌ b r æ s ɪ ˈ k eɪ s iː ˌ iː,-s i ˌ aɪ /) or (the older) Cruciferae (/ k r uː ˈ s ɪ f ər i /) [2] is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family.
Eruca vesicaria is an annual plant [5] growing to 20 to 100 cm (8 to 40 in) in height. The pinnate leaves are deeply lobed with four to ten, small, lateral lobes and a large terminal lobe.
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It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green. In warm conditions it tends to bolt to seed, [3] producing much-branched stems with clusters of flowers. The flowers have a bluish-white corolla of five fused petals, 1.5 to 2 mm (1 ⁄ 16 to 5 ⁄ 64 in) long and wide, and three stamens.
Leaves, used in salads. Sanguisorba minor, the salad burnet, [3] garden burnet, [4] small burnet, [3] burnet (also used for Sanguisorba generally), [citation needed] pimpernelle, [4] Toper's plant, [4] and burnet-bloodwort, [3] is an edible perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae.
William Andrew Archer (1894–1973) was an American economic botanist, ethnobotanist, taxonomist, plant explorer, and herbarium curator. He was born in Torreon, Mexico to American parents. Archer studied at New Mexico State College , earning his B.S. in biology, and completed a Ph.D. in botany and mycology at the University of Michigan in 1925 ...
Smyrnium olusatrum, common name alexanders (or alisander) is an edible flowering plant of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), which grows on waste ground and in hedges around the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal regions of Europe.
Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae.It is the largest genus in the family, containing over 680 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes.