Nederlands: Look-zonder-look
Español: Hierba del ajo - Aliaria
Français: Herbe à ail
Deutsch: Knoblauchsrauke - Knoblauchskraut - Lauchkraut - Knoblauchhederich
Family: Brassicaceae - Cabbage family
Flowering time: April-June
Height: 20-90cm
Altitude: to 1860m
Colour: white
Leaves: pale green, kidney shaped to heart-shaped, toothed, smelling of garlic when crushed
Habitat: margins of meadows and woodland, scrub, roadsides, waste ground
Distribution: native to most countries of Europe
Notes: In the Netherlands Garlic Mustard can be seen in flower in late autumn. It was introduced in North America as a culinary herb in the 1860s and is now regarded as an invasive species. Depending upon conditions it either self-fertilizes or is cross-pollinated by a variety of insects. Garlic Mustard is the larval host plant of a number of members of the Pieridae family like the Green-veined White, Orange tip, Small White and also of moths like Orthosia gothica. The female Orange tips lay eggs on the flowerheads of Garlic Mustard and on a number of flowers of other species of Brassicaceae. In June the pale green caterpillar of the Orange tip butterfly can be found feeding on the long green seed-pods.
Related key words: Rotterdam, Kralingse Bos, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, butterfly
