Seed variety
Corn salad Verte de Cambrai – Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta is an annual salad species with a low rosette of soft, spoon-shaped leaves. Flowering stems later carry tiny pale blue-white flowers. The leaf rosette is the relevant form in a salad-seed assortment, rather than the flower display. Its common names include corn salad and lamb’s lettuce. The catalogue average is 900 seeds per gram, a useful reference when comparing bulk quantities.
At a glance
Reference BSI-H805030Variety profile
Characteristics
- Cultivar
- Corn salad Verte de Cambrai
- Seeds per gram
- 900
- Plant height (cm)
- 25
- Life cycle
- annual
Botanical details
- Common names
- Corn salad
- Synonyms
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- Fedia caerulea Aitkin ex Eaton & Wright
- Fedia ecalyculata Stokes
- Fedia locusta (L.) Rchb.
- Fedia locusta var. lasiocarpa Rchb.
- Fedia olitaria (L.) Vahl
- Fedia olitcria (L.) Mirb.
- Fedia paniculata Colla
- Fedia striata Steven
- Locusta communis Delarbre
- Masema olitorium (L.) Dulac
- Valeriana locusta subsp. olitoria (L.) Ehrh.
- Valeriana locusta var. olitoria L.
- Valeriana olitoria (L.) Willd.
- Valerianella caerulea Eaton & Wright
- Valerianella dichotoma Gilib.
- Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.
- Valerianella locusta subsp. dunensis (D.E.Allen) P.D.Sell
- Valerianella locusta subsp. lusitanica (Pau ex Font Quer) M.Laínz
- Valerianella locusta var. dunensis Allen
- Valerianella lusitanica Pau ex Font Quer
- Valerianella olitoria (L.) Pollich
- Valerianella olitoria var. dichotoma Lej.
- Valerianella olitoria var. laciniata Gray
- Valerianella olitoria var. lasiocarpa Rchb.
- Valerianella olitoria var. latifolia Gray
- Valerianella olitoria var. leiocarpa Rchb.
- Valerianella olitoria var. procera Gray
- Valerianella olitoria var. serratifolia Gray
- Valerianella pusilla Miégev.
- Valerianella rhombicarpa Aiken ex Torr. & A.Gray
- Valerianella striata Steven
- Family
- Caprifoliaceae
- Genus
- Valerianella
- Species
- Valerianella locusta