@Lizzie27 Found this explanation for the use of the locusta epithet on this site.
Quant à l’adjectif locusta, il est plus tardif : en effet, les
botanistes de la Renaissance affublèrent la mâche d’un nom de
sauterelle, par analogie entre le vert franc des feuilles de la mâche et
la verdeur de cet insecte, bien que le doute subsiste à ce sujet.
As for the adjective locusta, it comes later: in fact, Renaissance botanists named lamb's lettuce after the grasshopper, by analogy between the frank green of the leaves of lamb's lettuce and the greenness of this insect, although there is still some doubt about this.
The leaves look like wild garlic but not sure about the flowers. (You would notice the garlic smell) Also, wild garlic tends to grow in shady, damp areas.
The leaves look like wild garlic but not sure about the flowers. (You would notice the garlic smell) Also, wild garlic tends to grow in shady, damp areas.
Sorry Lyn, but it is definitely not Allium ursinum or wild garlic...see pics below I am happy that it has been id accurately as Valerianella 'locusta'
I have found it more difficult than I thought ID ..ing a plant from a photo. I feel far more confident looking at an actual plant. The photos themselves can be really good but sometimes I can still question what I am looking at! One day I will post a photo that is the right way up then I will suprise others and myself.
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When I looked on that it states hardiness 7.
I am happy that it has been id accurately as Valerianella 'locusta'