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i <br />I <br />Garlic �Illustard <br />(�filfiaria peteola#a} <br />Please c/ick on the pfctures to vie�v them <br />as a larger size. <br />DESCRIPTION: Garlic mustard is a cool-season biennial herb that ranges #rom <br />12 to 48 inches in height as an adult flowering plant. Leaves and stems emit the <br />distinctive odor of onion or garlic when crushed (particularly in spring and early <br />summer), and help distinguish the plant from all other woodland mustard plants. <br />First year plants consist of a cluster of 3 or 4 round, scallop edged leaves rising 2 <br />fio 4 inches in a rosette. Second-year plants generally produce one or two <br />flowering stems with numerous white flowers t#�at have four separate petals. <br />Garlic mustard is the only plant of t#�is height in o�r woods with white flowers in <br />May. Fruits are slender capsules 1 to 2.5 inches long that produce a single row of <br />oblong black seeds wiih ridged seed coats. Stem leaves are alternate and <br />triangular in shape, have large teeth, and can be 2 to 3 inches across in fruiting <br />plants. Petioles are langer on the leaves towards the base. Garlic mustard can <br />also be distinguished by its uproot, which is slender, white, and "s"-shaped at the <br />top of the root. <br />Garlic Mustard Flowers and Plant <br />