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capsella<\/i> sp. eg shepherd’s purse<\/b><\/p>\n
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It does not have any local vernacular names apparently, and is listed as exotic. Must be well established on the hills, seeing the reports on EFI.<\/span><\/div>\n\n
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Capsella bursa-pastoris<\/i>, commonest weed in hills of India and temperate zone of the World.<\/p>\n
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…, the one I know when I was 5 years old and would go out in field to harvest rosettes of leaves of “Kral Mond<\/b>” (Capsella burpa-pastoris<\/i>),<\/span> “Hund” (Taraxacum officinale<\/i>), “Batti” (Cichorium intybus<\/i>),<\/span> and cook as delicious vegetable.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThank you for the local names (i surmise they would be Kashmiri dialect names ) for these three herbs… shepherd’s purse<\/b> is included in many herb walks in north east USA, favored to heal cystitis and uterine bleeds<\/span>.<\/p>\nI have eaten all three very often in spring as greens in salad without thinking of their herbal properties<\/span>, but the dandelion<\/b> is definitively good for liver and in fall pulling up the long tap root of dandelion to dry, and keep for various uses … along with burdock roots ((both roots are also available in organic green groceries next time you may wish to look them up and eat in soups or thin soupy daal at home good for the liver))<\/span><\/div>\nand Cichorium intybus<\/i> as wild flowers … later in fall to dig up the roots roasting and used as chikory to add to coffee to miimic the french coffee mixes I grew up with in eastern India…<\/span><\/div>\nand of course eating endives … a form of cultivated chikory… Cichorium intybus<\/i>… binomial is the same but it looks and tastes completely different..<\/span><\/div>\n