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Hare's ear mustard

Conringia

Also called Hare's Ear Mustards

Hare's ear mustard
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0

Conringia is a small genus of mustard-family herbs, mostly wild annuals and weeds rather than garden plants, with Conringia orientalis (hare's ear mustard) being the most widespread. Grown only where wanted as a cover or wildflower, it needs full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; these plants are adapted to dry, open ground and rot if kept soggy.
Soil
Poor to average, well-drained soil; tolerates sandy or stony ground.
Temperature
Cool to warm temperate conditions; hardy to frost, not grown for warm-climate interiors.
How easy
Easy

About

Conringia is a genus of plants in the mustard family known commonly as hare's ear mustards. These herbs are native to western and central Eurasia and north Africa, although one species Conringia orientalis, is known on many continents as a common weed. The genus was named for the German philosopher Hermann Conring.

Three species are accepted.

Other Conringia plants

Hare's ear mustard

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conringia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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