Photo: Walther Otto Müller — Public domain · source
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Survives zone 3 through 9
Whole plant edible — young leaves as a bitter salad or cooked green, roots roasted as a coffee substitute, flowers used for wine and syrup.
- Hardiness
- Zone 3 to 9
- Habit
- Herb
- Edible part
- Root, Flower, Leaf
- Ripens
- Young leaves in spring before flowering; roots in autumn
- Mature size
- Low rosette herb, flowering stalks 5–40 cm
- Light
- Full sun; tolerates partial
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7.0
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 1 yr
- Pollination
- Self-fertile