Back جرجير منتفخ Arabic Eruca vesicaria AST Eruca vesicaria AZ Eruca vesicaria Catalan Eruca vesicaria CEB Roced yr ardd CY Senfrauke German Eruca vesicaria Spanish منداب راکتی FA Välimerensinappikaali Finnish
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Eruca |
| Species: | E. vesicaria
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Arugula | |
Rocket, eruca,[1] or arugula (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. Its other common names include "garden rocket"[2] (in Britain, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand),[1] as well as "colewort", "roquette", "ruchetta", "rucola", "rucoli", and "rugula". E. vesicaria is widely popular as a salad vegetable and it is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region.[3][1][4]
Rocket is sometimes conflated with Diplotaxis tenuifolia, known as "perennial wall rocket", another plant of the family Brassicaceae that is used in the same manner.
- ^ a b c Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. ISBN 0-340-40170-2.
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- ^ Yaniv, Zohara; Schafferman, D.; Amar, Z. (1998). "Tradition, Uses and Biodiversity of Rocket (Eruca sativa, Brassicaceae) in Israel". Economic Botany. 52 (4): 394–400. doi:10.1007/BF02862069. JSTOR 4256115. S2CID 36181033.