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Garlic Mustard

Alliaria petiolata, or garlic mustard, is a biennial flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It is native to Europe, western and central Asia, north-western Africa, Morocco, Iberia and the British Isles, north to northern Scandinavia, and east to northern Pakistan and Xinjiang in western China. It has now become a tenacious invasive plant across the northern U.S., in particular because of its earlier springtime emergence than many native species, often in the forest understory.

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garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) observed in Charlton, NY, USA

Garlic mustard growing near your garden or local woods releases chemicals into the soil that kill...

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Alliaria petiolata
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Alliaria
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Brassicales
Habit: herb

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