Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata (M.Bieb.) Cavara & Grande
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 41 cm
Brassicaceae
Formerly Alliaria matthioli, Arabis alliaria, Arabis petiolata, Clypeola alliacea, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Asia and N. Myanmar, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 30–100 cm; Plants For A Future 1–1 m
- Spread
- 41 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Lithuanian
- Vaistinė česnakūnė, Česnakūnė
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Laukurt, Løkurt
- Dutch
- look zonder look, look-zonder-look
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Laukurt
- Picard
- Iérpazo
- Polish
- Czosnaczek Pospolity, Czosnaczek
- Portuguese
- erva alheira, erva-alheira, Lunaria biënnis
- Russian
- Чесночник лекарственный, Чесночница черешковая
- Slovak
- cesnačka lekárska
- Swedish
- Löktrav
- Turkish
- Sarmısak otu
- Ukrainian
- Кінський часник черешковий
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Alliaria petiolata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.