Lesser Swine-cress - Lepidium didymum
A delicate, feathery looking, yellowish green plant, with pungent smelling leaves. Flowers very small (1mm). Fruit 1.5 to 2 mm obviously two lobed and notched.
Lepidium coronopus
Small plant, all leaves pinnate; scented when crushed; no petals, or very short; 2 (sometimes 4) fertile stamens; fruit-stalks longer than fruit
General photo of plant in habitat; close up of flowers and fruit
Bare and waste ground, cultivated land.
June to September.
Annual.
Mainly found in Southern England and South Wales, local elsewhere in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 11 of the 617 tetrads.
In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (neophyte), scarce
Graham Calow
Cosby Allotments
16 May 2016
Graham Calow
Frolesworth
28 July 2015
seed obviously two lobed and notched
Graham Calow
Cosby Allotments
16 May 2016
tiny flowers
Graham Calow
Stoney Stanton
13 July 2016
Graham Calow
Kennel Lane, Witherley
23 May 2016
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
21 June 2012 site of 'The Limes' Sapcote SP 4816 9347 (taken 13.7.2008),..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
13 July 2008
 site of 'The Limes' Sapcote SP 4816 9347 (taken 13.7.2008),..JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Lesser Swine's Cress, Lesser Swine-cress, Slender Wart-Cress
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 26
- First record:
- 14/08/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 17/06/2023 (Smith, Peter)
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