Brassicaceae FAMILY
Lepidium ruderale
Lepidium ruderale
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
1/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Lepidium ruderale is a Annual/Biennial up to 0.30 metres tall. It is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine
Habitat & Origin
Origintemperate
Native RangeEurope, including Britain, from Scandanavia south and east to the Mediterranean and southwest Asia.
HabitatWaste places and by waysides, generally by the sea and especially in E. Anglia[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].