Giersch, Geissfuss or goat foot (Aegopodium podagraria), in the vernacular Zipperleinskraut, apply with gardners as one of most unpopular weeds. It spreads very strongly and is not considered as quasi not fightable.

Characteristics

The plant of several years becomes 30 to 100 cm highly and has a sharp-edged, gefurchten, hollow The sheets are doubly triple; the is egg-shaped-oblong and sharply sawed. The Fiedern 1. Resemble order a goat foot. The compound Dolden are flat and 12-20-strahlig. With the small white blooms the covering, the fruits is missing is

Since Giersch rises from a very strongly rampantly growing root stick, the (Rhizome) can form for colonies. Thus individual plants spread within fewer years over large surfaces in parks and gardens.

Occurrence

The plant is common nearly in completely Europe and the moderate-continental areas of the eurasischen hardwood forest belt.

Traditional welfare plant against charge

The name Podagrakraut or Zipperleinskraut points out that Giersch is a traditional means against charge. Over centuries Giersch applied with patients, who suffered from charge or rheumatism, as probates cure. Over longer time taken, it is to detoxicate also the body.

Use of the game herb in the kitchen

Giersch can be prepared as salad or vegetables, is very good-tasting and reminded in smell and taste a little at parsley. In the Middle Ages and still before not at all all too long time Giersch was also cultivated both and vegetables as and to welfare plant particularly. Medieval sources prove that it was in monastery and farmer gardens one "natural "standard useful plant.

As salad - as also with other wild plants - above all the completely young are suitable, hardly unfolded sheets. The raw sheets can be given also in upstrokes and soups.

If the plant is already older, the sheets for a tasty salad are too rough. They are suitable then however still for cooking - approximately for

Caution when picking

The Giersch has some very poisonous doubles, who are likewise like e.g. the Schierling. Therefore wild plant collecting tanks should make certain that the Blattstiel is in the cross section triangular, since there is no poisonous double with triangular Blattstiel. Best it is nevertheless to be able to be shown up the Giersch of a plant-well-informed.

Literature

• Heinz Ellenberg: Vegetation of Central Europe and the alps, Stuttgart, 1996, ISBN 3-8001-3430-6
• Elizabeth Mayer: Game fruits, game vegetable, game herbs. Stocker, 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0835-7, page 38 - 40

Related links

• Giersch - weed control
• http://www.naturheilkundelexikon.de/0186a2921d05ad813/0186a292a60b437b1.html - a more exact botanische description of the plant

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