A Year in the Valley

There are five British species of Cornsalad, but you can only identify which it is by the shape of the fruit.  They like disturbed ground, hedge banks and stony habitat, and there were several clumps of this around the base of the ramp and Vole County.  They are long stems topped with bunches of minute blue flowers, nested in fresh green leaves.  One of the species, V. carinata, is also known as Lamb’s Lettuce and is edible.