Valerianella carinata

Corn salad

Family: Valerianaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Corn salad is a naturalized annual found in northern Sierra Nevada Foothills in moist, generally shaded sites at elevations below 700 meters. Flowering in May, this plant produces white flowers with blue lobes in tiny clusters. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall and sparsely covered with downward-pointing hairs, it develops delicate branching stems. Its leaves range from 4 to 30 millimeters long, with lower leaves having stalks and upper leaves nearly stalkless, featuring obovate to narrow oblong shapes that are mostly entire with occasional teeth. The fruit is small, approximately 2 to 3 millimeters long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide.

Habitat: Moist, generally shaded sites

Bloom period: May

Elevation: < 700 m

Bioregions: n SNF

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