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Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr. - syn. Valerianella olitoria (L.) Pollich - Caprifoliaceae (also placed in Valerianaceae)
(common, European) cornsalad, lamb's lettuce, mâche, Feldsalat, Rapunzel, Rapünzchen

Annual herb, up to 30cm high, native to Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, naturalized elsewhere, cultivated as vegetable; stem hairy, branched; leaves basal and cauline, spathulate to narrowly elliptic-obovate, usually entire, 2-6cm long; flowers tiny, pale blue; fruit oblong-globose, 2mm, green.
http://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/Taxon/Valerianella_locusta.html

The young rosetta leaves are eaten as salad. They own a mild, slightly bitter taste and a green-nutty aroma.
„As a cultivated crop, it is a specialty of the region around Nantes, France, which is the primary source for mâche in Europe… The Brothers Grimm's tale Rapunzel may have taken its name from this plant, as the eponymous character is named for the „salad“ which her father has come into the sorceress' garden to steal. 'Rapunzel' is one of the German terms for corn salad.“
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerianella_locusta

„Concentrates of blended lamb's lettuce obtained by combined high-vacuum distillation/solvent extraction were analysed by HRGC, HRGC-MS and, in part, HRGC-FTIR. In total, 103 aroma substances were identified for the first time. Qualitatively and quantitatively a number of 3-methylbutanoates and 2-phenethyl esters together with various volatile lipid cleavage products were predominant.“
[Volatile constituents of Valerianella locusta., Götz-Schmidt, E.M., Schreier, P., Phytochemistry, Vol.27(3), 1988, 845-848]

Thomé, O.W., Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz, Tafeln, vol.4, t.561 (1885)
http://plantgenera.org/species.php?id_species=1050064