Swine-cress - Lepidium coronopus
Low to short prostrate plant. Leaves mostly 1 to 2 pinnately lobed dark green and strap like. Flowers small, white 2 to 3 mm in short crowded racemes. Fruit kidney shaped, net veined.
Lepidium didymum
Small plant, all leaves pinnate; not scented; with petals longer than sepals and 6 fertile stamens; fruit-stalks shorter than fruit
General photo of plant in habitat; close up of flowers and fruit
Waste ground, pathways and trampled ground, particularly field gateways.
June to September.
Annual or biennial.
Frequent throughout much of Britain, but mainly coastal in the North.
Frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 272 of the 617 tetrads.
In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (archaeophyte), occasional
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 May 2014
Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
25 May 2015
Graham Calow
Witherley
01 August 2015
fruit kidney shaped and net veined
Graham Calow
Witherley
15 July 2015
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 May 2014
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Species profile
- Common names
- Swine's Cress, Common Wart-Cress, Swine-cress
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 66
- First record:
- 04/08/2008 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 10/08/2023 (Smith, Peter)
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