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garlic mustard

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noun

  1. Also called: jack-by-the-hedge.   hedge garlic.  a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers) Compare garlic

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If more people foraged but were foraging things like mallow, black mustard, garlic mustard, nonnative bramble berries, we’d actually be doing our ecosystems a world of good.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022

Getting garlic mustard — or any weed for that matter — under control is an incremental process requiring elbow grease, a tool or two, and persistence.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2022

Towering black locust, buckthorn, Japanese hedge parsley, honeysuckle, garlic mustard and dame’s rocket have all played a role in the congestion.

From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2020

Put the chopped garlic, mustard, wine vinegar and olive oil into a jam jar with a pinch of salt and pepper.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2019

“Reshi? Would you get me some goose grease, garlic, mustard Do we have any of those green things that smell like onions but aren’t?”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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