Also called garlic root, hedge garlic, penny hedge, Jack-by-the-hedge, Jack-in-the-bush, sauce-alone and poor man's mustard.
Part of
cabbage/mustard family Brassicaceae.
Native to 🇪🇺 Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia.
Invasive > learn+quiz
Invasive > 🌐︎ global
Invasive > 🌐︎ various
Invasive > 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada+USA
Invasive > report it!
Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA
Invasive > Michigan
Inv. trading card 
Inv. identification card
🚼︎ For kids! This plant described in invasive species placemat
series.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
On No-Planting List by Seneca Nation of Indians SNI. (page 60)
Garlic mustard was brought to 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 North America by 👥︎⛵︎ European settlers, who used it as a 🍲︎ "pot herb" or green in stews, early in the growing season, when it is the only green available. Later, it escaped into the wild, and people forgot how to cook with it. Recently, some are rediscovering how to do so. This author has tasted a pesto made in the local 🏫︎ Middle School — very tasty.
Recipes,
story and recipe,
recipe book Pest to Pesto 2.
Photos of 2-year lifecycle of garlic mustard.
Nice drawing. (page 36)
In areas where garlic mustard is invasive, garlic mustard inhibits the growth of a fungus required by most native plants, resulting in a garlic mustard desert. GM does this by producing and releasing the
allelopathic chemical
benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC),
which inhibits the growth of
ectomycorrhizal fungi,
required by the native plants' roots, via a
symbiotic relationship.
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