Usual field salad (Valerianella locusta), regionally also field salad, Rapunzel, , Vogerlsalat, mouse ear salad or mentioned, is belonged a kind of the kind field salad and to the family of the valerian plants (Valerianaceae).

It is a one year's krautige plant with basicconstant Blattrosette. In its culture form as sheet salad eaten, the common field salad is actually a game herb on native fields and at edges of way, that already since end 19. Century in Europe and now increased also under glass one pulls and one harvests from October to April in manual work.

If one wants to kultiviren the salad, then one sows the seed in the autumn into a somewhat loose soil, where he comes out without all further care and in the winter also under the snow. If the field salad is a mark in a garden, then it reproduces by the failing seed automatically and becomes last annoying weeds. (Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, the large illustrirte herb book, 1873)

Its sheets will grow five to 30 centimeters long and in small Rosetten, which are cut off individually by hand with the measurer, at the root neck. Depending upon sort the sheets are, broadly or narrowly approximately or pointed and occur in different green shades. Field salad tastes very aromatic. Some remind in the taste of Haselnuss.

Field salad contains plentifully potassium, Vitamin A and Vitamin C, much iron and Vitamin B6 as well as small quantities of copper, zinc, magnesium and phosphorus. It works urine-floating and exhausting.

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