Taxon: Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.

Common names:

• common cornsalad   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• cornsalad   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• European cornsalad   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• lamb's-lettuce   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• mâche douchette   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• valérianelle   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Feldsalat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Rapunzel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• valerianella   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• nojisha   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• alface   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• lechuga de campo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vårklynne   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Cornucopia)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Muminovic, J. et al. 2004. Genetic diversity in cornsalad (Valerianella locusta) and related species as determined by AFLP markers. Pl. Breed. (New York) 123:460–466.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Valerianella locusta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Valerianella locusta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Valerianella locusta.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Valeriana locusta L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Valerianella olitoria (L.) Pollich
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other web resources for Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fertile locule of fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fertile locule of fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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