Hypochoeris radicata
| Hypochoeris radicata | |
| Light: |  |
| Moisture: |   |
| Hardiness: | 5 |
| Soil pH: | 5.6-8.4 |
| Height: | 1' |
| Blooms: | Early Summer-Early Fall |
| Meadows Open Woods Forest | |
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| Edible Rating: |  |
| Medicinal Rating: |  |
| Tea: | Yes |
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Hypochoeris radicata (common name: cat's ear)
Propagation: Seed - sow spring in a cold frame and only just cover the seed. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and plant them out in the summer.
If you have sufficient seed it can be sown outdoors in situ in the spring.
Cultivation: Requires a well-drained soil and a sunny position or light shade. Another report says that it dislikes shade.
A common lawn weed[1].
Range: Europe, including Britain, from Scandanavia south and east to N. Africa and western Asia.
Habitat: Meadws and dry pastures, grassy dunes, waysides and open woods[2][3].
Edibility: Young leaves - raw or cooked like spinach[2][4][5][6]. A winter salad[7], it is rather bitter[K]. Young leaves are mild and agreeable[8].
Medicinal: Pectoral[7].
Pollinators: Bees, flies lepidoptera
Soil: Can grow in light, medium, and heavy soils.
Seed Ripens: Mid Summer-Early Fall
Flower Type: Hermaphrodite
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References
- ↑ Baines, Chris. Making a Wildlife Garden.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mabey, Richard. Food for Free. Collins, 1974.
- ↑ Clapham, Arthur and Tom Tootin, Edmund Warburg. Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, 1962.
- ↑ Larkcom, Joy. Salads all the Year Round. Hamlyn, 1980.
- ↑ de Bray, Lys. The Wild Garden.
- ↑ Facciola, Stephen. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, 1990.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Polunin, Oleg. Flowers of Europe. Oxford University Press, 1969.
- ↑ Les Ecologistes de l'Euzière. Les Salades Sauvages. 1994.