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| Name | Corn salad | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Valerianella locusta | ||||||||||
| Description | Valerianella locusta is a small dicot annual plant of the family Valerianaceae. It is an edible salad green with a characteristic nutty flavor, dark green color, and soft texture. Common names include corn salad (or cornsalad), lamb's lettuce, mâche, fetticus, feldsalat, nut lettuce, field salad and rapunzel. In restaurants that feature French cooking, this salad green may be called doucette or raiponce, as an alternative to mâche, by which it is best known. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00340 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Vegetables | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Leaf vegetables | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Dipsacales | ||||||||||
| Family | Caprifoliaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Valerianella | ||||||||||
| Species | locusta | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 35392 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Valerianella locusta | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. | ||||||||||