Wildflowers of the Stuttgart Area
Valerianella locusta
| Family : | VALERIANACEAE |
| Common Name (UK) : | Common Corn Salad |
| Common Name (DE) : | Echter Feldsalat |
| Common Name (FR) : | La māche |
| Habitat : | Cultivated ground, waste places, hedgebanks, dunes etc, usually on dry soils. |
| Remarks : | Mache is at once one of the most delicate salad greens, and one of the most cold hardy. It can survive the snow. The greens grow from a mass of fibrous roots...Mache is grown for the market in Europe, especially in France where pre-washed mache is sold in plastic bags or boxes in all supermarkets. |
| First appearing : | May |
| Abundance : | Abundant |
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