What is this dish like? Is the vegetable dandelion?

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, it was a custom to eat local dishes and boil eggs, but for many people, they didn't know what local dishes were like. So what's the local food like? Is the vegetable dandelion?

What do ground vegetables look like? Shepherd's purse, also known as grass protection, ground vegetables, rice vegetables, water chestnut vegetables and so on. Is an annual or biennial herb of Cruciferae and Capsella. Growing in fields, roadsides and gardens. Feed on young leaves. It has high nutritional value, various edible methods and high medicinal value. Shepherd's purse is distributed all over the world. China has collected wild shepherd's purse for food since ancient times, which was recorded as early as 300 BC.

Shepherd's purse is 30 ~ 40 cm high, and its main root is slender, white and branches straight down. Stems erect, simple or branched at base. Basal leaves are clustered, like rosettes, pinnate leaves, sparse and entire, upper lobes are triangular and irregular, the top is extra large, and leaves and wings are hairy. Cauline leaves are narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate, the top is nearly linear, the base is ear-shaped, the edge is notched or serrated, or nearly entire, the leaves are simple or branched on both sides, the edge is sparse and white, and there are long eyelashes.

Many flowers, terminal axillary racemes. When flowering, the stem is 20 ~ 50 cm high, and the raceme is terminal and axillary. The flowers are small, white and bisexual. Calyx 4 pieces, green, spreading, ovate, base section, with white edge, corolla crossed. Short pods are flat. Petals obovate, clawed, 4 pieces, white, cross-shaped, about 2.5 mm in diameter; Stamens 6, 4 strong, with green glands at the base; Pistil 1, ovary triangular-ovate, style extremely short. Short pods are inverted triangle, hairless, flat, slightly concave at the top, 6 ~ 8 mm long and 5 ~ 6 mm wide, with residual styles. The seeds are about 20 ~ 25, arranged in 2 rows, small, obovate and about 0 in length. Eight millimeters. The flowering period is from March to May.

Is the ground food dandelion? Ground food is not dandelion. They have the following differences.

Dandelion is sharp and looks very painful; I feel shepherd's purse is a little smoother and does not prick my hand.

Dandelion serrated leaves grow to the root of the petiole, shepherd's purse leaves only grow to half, and near the root is the petiole of light.

Cut off stems or leaves. Dandelion is the kind with white juice.

Dandelion's roots are thick and long, with white juice; The root of shepherd's purse is very thin and shallow.

Smell it. Shepherd's purse has obvious shepherd's purse flavor, but dandelion flavor is not big.