Pignut ‘Conopodium majus’

Delicate leaves with white umbellifer flower. Dainty plant of meadows on light dry soils. Please note this species is dormant in the winter, therefore no leaves would be showing. Pignut is a small perennial herb, whose underground part resembles a chestnut and is sometimes eaten as a wild or cultivated root vegetable.

The plant has many English names including kippernut, cipernut, arnut, jarnut, hawknut, earth chestnut, groundnut, and earthnut. From its popularity with pigs come the names pignut, hognut and more indirectly Saint Anthony’s nut.