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Food- Leaves are consumed raw or cooked. Nice as a flavouring in salads, it is usually available all year round. Root of the plant is also consumed raw or cooked
Europe to Northwest Africa
Thrives in fields, roadsides, grasslands, disturbed sites, streamsides, clearings, running water, wet forests, dry sites, greenhouses; near sea level to 3600 m.
It is herb annual or biennial 10-50 cm tall sparsely to densely hairy basally or throughout or hairless.
Stem is erect, ascending, or decumbent, 1 to several from base, simple or branched, flexuous or straight.
Leaves are of two sets, basal rosette of leaves that have about 5 roundish stalked leaflets on each side and a larger one at the end. Stem leaves are similar but smaller and often with narrower leaflets.
Flowers are normally with 6 stamens, of which 2 may or may not be smaller than the others.
Fruit is elongated and cylindrical, green when immature, turning brown when ripe. Splits open when ripe to release seeds.
Flowering: February – May,
Fruiting: April – July.