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(Swedish: fjälltimotej; Norwegian: Fjelltimotei; Finnish: Pohjantähkiö; Danish: Fjeld-Rottehale; Icelandic: Fjallaskollapuntur) Text by Anna Palmé, photos by Magnus Göransson. To appreciate the beauty of alpine timothy you need to get close to the ground, but it will be worth it. It is a 10 -30 cm tall grass and generally has attractive short, plump, dark violet-brown inflorescences and violet tinted leaves in sparse tufts. It has...
(Swedish: vårvicker; Norwegian: vårvikke; Finnish: nätkelmävirna; Danish: vår-vikke) Text by Heli Fitzgerald. Top photo: Vicia lathyroides (Image: Saxifraga-Ed Stikvoort) Vicia lathyroides, spring vetch, is a small, annual herb in the bean family with double-leafed leaves and red-violet flowers. Its...
Text and photos by Stein Harald Hjeltnes Plums are among the most variable and beautiful fruits (Hedrick, 1911), and several different botanical classification and ways of grouping the fruit based on the fruit appearance and taste have been applied. Additionally, local names are not always in accordance...
Text by Anna Palmé Chives are one of several onion species used in the Nordic kitchen and they can be found both as wild and cultivated forms. It is a popular herb, perhaps due to its mild onion taste, and it is used in a wide variety of dishes such as potato...
Text by Åsmund Asdal and photos by Finn Måge. The strawberry (Fragaria sp.) is one of the most popular berries on Nordic tables. The wild strawberries have been harvested in the wild and highly appreciated for centuries, not only for the sweet taste, but as a cure for illnesses. Cultivation of large...
Text: Jens Weibull Alsike is a small and unnoticed village about 20 km southeast of Uppsala, Sweden, but it has left its contribution to history through a clover species that Carolus Linnaeus found here. He called it ‘hybridum‘ because he saw it as a hybrid between red clover and white clover....
Text by Heli Fitzgerald European crab apple is a small and thorny, native wild tree, which is distributed over most of the European countries, including all the Nordic countries except Iceland. Its scientific name, Malus sylvestris, means “forest apple”. It is found growing as single individuals or in small groups in forest edges, thickets, hedgerows or roadsides. Crab apple is...
Blackberries are exiting plants, both for botanists and ecologists and for berry-pickers who enjoy the sweet and mild taste of the black delicacy, which sometimes can be a struggle to harvest, due to the very sharp thorns that most black berry plants...
In Norden, several of our cultivated plants are also represented by their wild counterparts. One of these – the parsnip – is much more common than most people think. It grows commonly up to about 62oN but occurs occasionally much further north than that. Eurasia serves as the...
Hazelnuts are historically one of the most common nuts in the Nordic countries and our long association with hazel has created several folklore traditions. Hazelnuts ripen in late summer or fall and should be harvested as soon as the edges of the husks that enclose the nut begin to turn...
