Lepidium coronopus (L.) Al-Shehbaz
Diagnostic description:
A low, spreading, much branched, hairless annual or biennial. Stems prostrate to decumbent, from 30 to 40 cm long. Leaves at first in a basal rosette, up to 10 cm long, deeply pinnately-lobed; lobes lanceolate, toothed. Flowers with 4 petals, white, 2 to 5 mm across, in dense, short racemes, in the leaf axil. Silicula 3 to 4 mm across, kidney-shaped, covered with rough and irregular ridges, warts and tubercles.
Distribution:
Local: Very rare in Gibraltar. Found as a weed in cultivated plots.
Global: Found throughout Europe.
Ecology:
Flowers from (March) April, May to June (July).
Habitat:
Grows on waste and bare ground.