402 VALERIANACEAE (VALERIAN FAMILY) 
CORN SALAD 
Valerianélla Loctsta, Betcke. 
Other English names: Lamb’s Lettuce, Milk Grass. 
Introduced. Annual or winter annual. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: April to July. 
Seed-time: June to September. 
Range: Maine to Ontario, and southward to Virginia. 
Habitat: Old fields, meadows, and waste places. 
This plant is an immigrant from Europe and an escape from 
gardens, where it was cultivated for salads and greens under the 
Fie. 281.— Corn Salad (Va- 
lerianella Locusta). 
names of Fetticus, Veticost, and White 
Potherb. It is very hardy, enduring cold 
so well that in mild climates or mild 
winters it can be gathered and used 
throughout that season, a quality that 
helps it to survive many hardships as 
a weed. (Fig. 281.) 
Stems six inches to a foot high, 
branching by repeated forking. Leaves 
opposite, pale green, succulent, tender, 
the lower ones growing in a tuft about 
the base of the stalk, blunt-pointed or 
rounded at the tips, tapering toward 
the base; stem-leaves sessile, smaller, 
and more pointed. Flowers very tiny, 
growing in small, flat clusters hardly a 
half-inch broad; the corollas pale blue 
or violet, funnel form, with five spread- 
ing unequal lobes; stamens usually three, 
and style with three-lobed stigma. 
Seeds very small, contained in a three- 
celled capsule of which two cells are 
always empty. Another species, six to 
eighteen inches tall with white flowers, 
known as the BeakeD Corn Satap (Valerianélla radiata, Dufr.), 
ranges from Massachusetts to Minnesota and southward to Texas 
and Florida, infesting low meadows and other moist soils. Cattle 
