FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
VALERIANELLA ERIOCARPA, ITALIAN CORN SALAD
Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]
is a plant of Europe and north Africa. This plant is much used in Europe as a
substitute for lettuce in the spring and also, when grown in rich soil and
of a considerable size, for spinach. This species occurs in gardens in two
varieties. It has a lighter green, somewhat longer leaf than the ordinary
corn salad, slightly hairy and a little dentate on the borders towards the
base. it has the same uses. It is described for American gardens in 1863.
Under its common name greese mache, it is noticed in France in 1829
and also as mache d'Italie in 1824.
