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Text: Anna Palmé The lingonberry is found across most of the Nordic region and has a circumpolar distribution across Europe, Asia and North America. It occurs in the boreal forest and Arctic tundra of the Northern Hemisphere and is most common under a forest canopy on dry, acidic and low nutrient soils. It survives very low winter...
Brassica rapa is a diverse wild plant species known with several common names: wild turnip, field mustard, turnip mustard, wild mustard, wild kale or bird rape. It has bright yellow flowers which attract bees. Brassica rapa has several subspecies with different uses as crop plants. Turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) is used as a root vegetable. It’s a...
Text by Jens Weibull Along the roadsides in the southern parts of the Sweden, and not least on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, you will often encounter the common chicory. While in the Nordic countries it certainly has a more southerly distribution, it has occasionally been found...
Text by Axel Palmé (student) Cloudberry is a circumpolar boreal plant, which can be naturally found throughout the northern hemisphere. The berries are very appreciated and considered a delicacy. They are packed with vitamin C and can be used for alcoholic beverages or...
Beets are one, of not very many, important food crops that originates from European native flora. The ancestor of beets is the wild plant sea beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima L.) having its natural habitat at sea shores from the Mediterranean and southern Europe. However,...
Text and photos by Heli Fitzgerald Sea kale (Crambe maritima) is a wild relative of an oil and fodder crop Crambe hispanica and also other brassica crops. It has a potential use in breeding, for example in proving salt or drought tolerance. Sea Kale grows as a native species across coastal areas of Northern and Baltic seas in...
The common vetch has been cultivated at least since Roman times, but there are indications that it has been utilized by humans long before that. It is used as fodder for cows and horses etc. and also as a cover crop and as green manure. As other species in the pea family, it...
Text by Ulrika Carlson-Nilsson Caraway, not to be confused with cumin (Cuminum cyminum), is a biennial cross-pollinated plant belonging to the Apiaceae family. Caraway is native to Europe, but also to western Asia and North Africa. Its natural habitats are well drained sunny meadows, hills and roadsides but it can also be found naturalized around old crofts and farm...
Text by Jens Weibull This adorable little species belongs to the Valerianaceae family that also includes the medicinal herb valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.). Primarily a plant of seashores and lighter soils incl. cultivated land, the seeds of the corn salad, lamb’s lettuce or mâche* as it is also often called, germinates during autumn and the plant establishes...
Red clover is the most commonly used forage legume in the Nordic region. It occurs across most of the area, though only sparsely in the northernmost and mountain areas and in Iceland. The species displays a large diversity in the size and colour of the flower,...
