garlic mustard

British

noun

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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This is garlic mustard, a Washington state Class A noxious weed.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2022

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

Some weeds, like the notorious garlic mustard, should not be composted under any circumstance, because their seeds remain viable even in a hot compost pile.

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

“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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