{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Peltaria alliacea3.JPG |genus = Peltaria |species = alliacea |authority = Jacq. |synonyms = {{Species list |Bohadschia alliacea |(Jacq.) Crantz |Clypeola alliacea |(Jacq.) Poir. |Clypeola perennis |Ard. |Peltaria perennis |(Ard.) Markgr.}}<ref name="plantlist">{{cite web|title=Peltaria alliacea Jacq. is an accepted name|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2411972|date=23 March 2012|publisher=theplantlist.org|accessdate=29 October 2017}}</ref> }}
'''''Peltaria alliacea''''', or '''garlic cress''', is a perennial flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to Albania, Austria, Hungary, Romania and former Yugoslavia.<ref name=powo>{{cite web |work=Plants of the World Online |title= ''Peltaria alliacea'' Jacq. |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:288039-1 |access-date=12 May 2023 }}</ref> The plant grows up to {{convert|60|cm|abbr=on}} and has white flowers from May to July. The plant is glabrous (hairless) with simple, entire leaves. The leaves are ovate, sessile and amplexicaule (having lobes that completely surround the stem). When crushed they smell of garlic, hence the common name.<ref name=Stace>Clive Stace {{google books|nJ3YP28EjscC|New Flora of the British Isles|page=421}}</ref> The {{convert|3-4|mm|abbr=on}} long white petals are shortly clawed. The orbicular,<ref name=Stace/> very flat silicula or seed, is pendent and has a size of about {{convert|6|by|6|mm|abbr=on}}. Its chromosome number is 2n=14 (also: 28, 56).<ref>{{cite journal | author = S.I. Warwick, I.A. Al-Shehbaz | title = Brassicaceae: Chromosome number index and database on CD-Rom | journal = Plant Systematics and Evolution | volume = 259 | date = 2006 | issue = 2–4 | pages = 237–248 | doi = 10.1007/s00606-006-0421-1}}</ref>
It was first published and described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 'Enum. Stirp. Vindob.' on page 260 in May 1762.<ref name="powo"/>
The plant grows in stony areas from Southern Austria (Styria, Lower Austria) to South Romania and Albania. It has become naturalized at a single location on the Isle of Skye in the U.K.<ref name=PlantAtlas2020>{{cite web |title=''Peltaria alliacea'' Jacq. |work=BSBI Online Plant Atlas 2020 |editor=P.A. Stroh |editor2=T. A. Humphrey |editor3=R.J. Burkmar |editor4=O.L. Pescott |editor5=D.B. Roy |editor6=K.J. Walker |url=https://plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.3hktcp |access-date=12 May 2023 }}</ref>
The plant is also grown as a herb or vegetable. The leaves can be used and add a spiciness to salads. Although, they can become bitter in the summer.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Peltaria+alliacea | title=Garlic Cress|publisher=Plants for a Future |access-date=28 October 2017}}</ref>
{| |thumb|110px|leaves |thumb|110px|silicula |thumb|110px|plant habitus |thumb|110px|near Graz (Austria) |}
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Category:Brassicaceae Category:Plants described in 1762 Category:Flora of Europe Category:Flora of Austria Category:Flora of Romania Category:Flora of Albania Category:Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin