Dittander - Lepidium latifolium

Rather stout, tall, hairless, stoloniferous plant. Stems erect, much branched. Leaves oval, toothed, the lower stalked, the upper narrower and unstalked. Flowers white, 2 to 3 mm, in broad panicles, petals longer than the white edged sepals.

Larger plant, fruits rounded, not winged; basal leaves serrated with long stalk; leaves becomes narrower up the stem ans upper leaves are narrow, entire and unstalked. 

General photo of flowering plant in habitat

Damp sandy habitats, disturbed ground.

June to August.

Perennial.

Widespread but local, mainly in southern Britain.

Scarce in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 18 of the 617 tetrads

In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (neophyte), scarce