Being part of the mustard family, this plant has been used in the past as a digestive aid…. I munch on it now and then, but have a hard time ever harvesting any because they’re so pretty and bloom when nothing else is which makes it hard to remove them from the landscape. Plus, they’re very little, and so it takes a great deal of prettiness to make a small amount of medicine.

Chickweed grows in the mountains some, but it’s not terribly common in this area. I am trying to get it to grow in the garden though. It’s a bit dry for its liking round these parts.

this beauty is Mountain Candytuft (Noccaea montana I think) also called Pennycress… The flowers are often tinged with violet or pink depending on their location. They mostly grow in Montane areas populated with lots of Ponderosa Pine.

San