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  • From: John Hendrickson <jhendric AT wisc.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:32:03 -0600

Bill,

They are two different things.  Chickweed is Stellaria media and Creeping Charlie is Glechoma hederacea.

-John

At 10:01 AM 11/28/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, isn't chickweed the same
thing as Creeping Charlie? It's a member of the mint family (square stem
cross-section) and inhabits many lawns as a difficult weed. I've always
hated the smell when it's bruised. Are they putting it in salads? Sorry to
press you for details but I'm a little surprised.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html

John Hendrickson
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1535 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI  53706
608-265-3704
www.cias.wisc.edu



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