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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wild blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.) is a small woody shrub with distribution from temperate parts of northern and central Europe to northern Asia. In the Nordic region, it is native in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It grows in streamside...
”But, listen, are you being serious? Do you really consider wild oat a crop wild relative?” Well, the question marks can be well justified. Wild oat is, in fact, a regulated pest in all Nordic countries, except Iceland. If not...
