Flixweed - Descurainia sophia
Medium to tall hairy plant. Leaves grey-green, 2 or 3 pinnately lobed, fern like. Flowers pale yellow, small (3 mm) petals shorter than sepals. Fruit very slender, 8 to 45 mm curving, sometimes almost erect.
This is rare in VC55 so photographs are needed for verification. Photograph the whole flowering plant in habitat, and provide photo of details of flowers/seed-pods (RPR)
Waste places, tips, spoil heaps or on light, sandy disturbed soils.
Flowers June to August.
Annual.
Infrequent but widespread in Britain.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 7 of the 617 tetrads.
In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien, archaeophyte, rare.
It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) as Locally Scarce (i.e. present in 4-10 sites)
Geoffrey Hall
Near New Parks Library
17 June 2015
Geoffrey Hall
Near New Parks Library
17 June 2015
Geoffrey Hall
Near New Parks Library
17 June 2015
Sally Cunningham
near New Parks library
16 June 2015
Sally Cunningham
near New Parks library
16 June 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Flixweed
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 16/06/2015 (Cunningham, Sally)
- Last record:
- 09/06/2016 (Grimes, Martin)
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