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Dentaria diphylla

  • Perennial
Home Perennial Dentaria diphylla

Rich damp woods and meadows.

Family: Brassicaceae
Height: 0.3 m / 1 ft
Shade, Semi-shade
Light, Medium Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 0 of 5

Native Habitat

Crinkleroot Dentaria diphylla native habitat is Rich damp woods and meadows.

Edible Uses

Root - raw or cooked. It has a crisp texture and a pleasant pungent taste, rather like water cress or horseradish. It can be added to salads or used as a relish. The root has a pungent acrid taste when first harvested, the Indians cleaned the roots, heaped them on a blanket, covered them to exclude air and then left them to ferment for 4 - 5 days. After this the roots developed a sweet taste. Leaves - raw or cooked. The cooking water was changed once in order to remove the bitterness.

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