CRUCIFERAE (MUSTARD FAMILY) 191 
Time of bloom: May to June. 
Seed-time: July to August. 
Range: Ontario to Ohio, southward to Virginia. 
Habitat: Roadsides, waste places, and about farmyards. 
In Europe the leaves of this plant are 
sometimes used for flavoring food in place 
of garlic, which they resemble in odor. In 
this country the plant occasionally flavors 
milk and butter through being eaten by 
milch cows. 
Stem one to three feet high, rather stout, 
smooth, erect, and branching. Leaves 
broadly oval or heart-shaped, sometimes 
nearly round, coarsely toothed, smooth or 
with a slight hairiness on midvein and 
margins, the lower ones six or more inches 
broad with long petioles, the upper ones 
smaller and short-stalked. Flowers in short 
racemose clusters, white, nearly a half-inch 
broad. Siliques one to two inches long, 
stiff and four-angled, slender, with valves 
keeled and three-nerved. Seeds brown, 
oblong, and ridged, one row in each cell. 
(Fig. 134.) 
Means of control 
Deep cutting of autumn leaf-tufts from 
. the rgots with hoe or spud; cutting or yy, 
Fie. 134. — Garlic 
ustard (Alliaria offict- 
hand-pulling the fruiting stalks before the nalis). x3. 
first flowers mature. 
HEDGE MUSTARD 
Sisgmbrium officindle, Scop. 
Introduced. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to November. 
Seed-time: July to December. 
Range: Throughout North America except the extreme North. 
Habitat: Fields, roadsides, and waste places. 
