Eruca vesicaria
Arugula (American English) or rocket (Commonwealth English) (Eruca vesicaria; syns. Eruca sativa Mill., E. vesicaria subsp. sativa (Miller) Thell., Brassica eruca L.) is an edible annual plant in the family Brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor. Other common names include garden rocket (in Britain, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand), and eruca. It is also called "ruchetta," "rucola," "rucoli," "rugula," "colewort," and "roquette." Eruca vesicaria, which is widely popular as a salad vegetable, is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region.It is sometimes conflated with Diplotaxis tenuifolia, known as "perennial wall rocket," another plant of the family Brassicaceae that is used in the same manner.()
