How to Grow and Care for Corn salads

Corn salad (Valerianella locusta) is a small annual that grows to 15 to 30 cm in height. It grows on bare ground with rocky soils or coastal dunes producing small clusters of white flowers that bloom from spring to summer. Sow in summer to produce deliciously-edible salad greens throughout winter.

Beaked Cornsalad, also known as Lamb’s Lettuce, probably gets its name from the way it invades corn fields or other grains. It is edible, and sometimes the young leaves are used in salads. It grows well in moist soil and full sun.

The italian corn salad is a relatively new species of plant that can be found in dry habitats. While it enjoys stony soil, it is particularly noted for growing on cliffsides and on industrial walls. Italian corn salad is sometimes harvested for its leaves which can be incorporated into salads.

European cornsalad is a honeysuckle plant that grows in disturbed areas such as paths, paving, railways, and gardens. It germinates in autumn and has an extensive blooming period that can last until the end of winter. European cornsalad produces lovely lilac-blue flowers that make a nice feature in flower beds.

It has stems up to 40 cm in height. The lower leaves of up to 3 to 0.4 cm, narrowly spatulate to obovate, obtuse, whole or serrated; the upper ones up to 4 to 1.2 cm, linear-lanceolate, with lower part pinnatisecta. The flowers in dense tops. Setose bracts. Corolla of 1.4 to 1.8 mm, pale blue-violet, lanceolate or ovate, linear.