Abrotanoides Carpesium (Carpesium abrotanoides)

Family: Asteraceae or Compositae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Carpesium abrotanoides is a PERENNIAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in). It is in flower from September to November, and the seeds ripen from October to November. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. Suitable pH: mildly acid, neutral and basic (mildly alkaline) soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

sweet flavour, though they smell of foxes. — A sweet flavour, though they smell of foxes.

Habitat & North American Range

Woods all over Japan. Waste places and grassy fields in lowlands, also along forest edges. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)