Brassicaceae FAMILY

Turritis glabra

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Turritis glabra is a Annual/Biennial up to 0.60 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 N. Africa, temperate Asia to Japan.

HabitatDry banks, cliffs and rocks, roadsides and waste places, especially in E. England[ 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. ].