Botanical atlas
Alpine Hutchinsia
Hutchinsia alpina
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Alpine hutchinsia has never been a kitchen or medicine chest herb. Its real story belongs to the mountains, where it clings to scree and limestone crevices from the Alps to the Pyrenees and Carpathians, often growing where almost nothing else will take hold. Alpine botanists and rock gardeners have prized it since the Victorian era for exactly that toughness, tucking it into troughs and scree beds to bring a scrap of high-altitude wildness down to garden level. Its charm has always been ornamental and botanical rather than culinary or medicinal.
Safety.
Alpine hutchinsia has no documented toxicity and no history as a food herb, and it can be confused with other small white-flowered mustards in the wild, so it's not one to forage for the table.
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