Wild mustard

This is a kind of wild mustard plant that grows all over here and you can eat it. It has a horseradishy taste, kind of like the wasabi you put on sushi and is about as intense. Pick a leaf and taste it. Here is a link to this plant:

Mustard plant:

Another link:

The above picture is at Purdue, in front of the new building where they put the theatre and art studios. Right across from the Thursdays farmer's market at Purdue. It has a rain garden in front where they planted stuff that kind of halfway mimics a prairie, it's tall rangy plants that aren't intended to have much maintenance. This wild mustard showed up there, I doubt if they intended it, as landscapers would consider it a weed, but I guess they didn't know one plant from another at first. The above picture was taken in June and a couple weeks later the grounds crew figured out it wasn't what they planted and yanked it out.

This is probably the easiest place to find this mustard, it's just across the bridge on the West Lafayette side.

The yellow stuff surrounding the base of the power line tower is a pretty good bunch of wild mustard, you can find this on the trail halfway between Tapawingo park and South River Road

A few leaves of wild mustard gives a zip to what you are eating. You can't buy this stuff but you can eat it for free.