🪶Indigenous / Native American
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
About Garlic Mustard
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Immune Support, Respiratory Issues, and Wound Healing. The bulb is the part traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Alliaria petiolata is a biennial flowering plant in the Mustard family, Brassicaceae. It is native to Europe, western and central Asia, and northwestern Africa, from Morocco, Iberia and the British Isles, north to northern Scandinavia, and east to northern Pakistan and western China (Xinjiang).
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Bulb · both