| Author | (L.) Laterrade | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the Piedmont, scattered in the Coastal Plain, rare in the Mountains. First collected in 1922 in Orange County and 1924 in Guilford County.
Native to Europe; in N.A. ME to Ont. south to GA and TX; also Pacific states and northern Rocky Mountain states. | |
| Abundance | Frequent in the Piedmont, rare to uncommon in the Coastal Plain, rare in the Mountains. | |
| Habitat | Moist to mesic soils of floodplains, bottomlands, marl forest (Pender Co.), shores of impoundments, streambanks, fields, cropfields, campus weed. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting late March-June. | |
| Identification | European Cornsalad has small pale blue or bluish flowers, smaller than our white-flowered native species. The plants usually are shorter, typically just 4-12 inches tall, as opposed to 8-24 inches tall in the 2 native species. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Weakley (2020) places Valerianella and Valeriana into family Valerianaceae, but without taxonomic justification. The papers he cites are a mixed bag without consensus. We will await further developments. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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