Eruca sativa, commonly known as Rocket Salad is a pungent, herbaceous, leafy green salad vegetable very popular as a spicy addition to mixed leaf salads. It has a peppery taste to it and has been a widely grown herb since Roman times.
The leaves are deeply pinnately lobed and bright green, while the small white flowers are held aloft on stems.
It is very easy to grow either from seed or from seedlings purchased at your local nursery.
Left to go to seed it will reproduce itself easily year after year if you let it.
They go to flower quickly in hot and dry weather.