Scientific name: Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara & Grande
Common name: Garlic Mustard
Description
Habit: An erect, nearly hairless biennial, to 1.2 m high.
Stems: Sparsely branched.
Leaves: Alternate, mostly stalked, undivided, round or heart-shaped and coarsely toothed; smelling strongly of garlic when crushed.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 5 mm across, in racemes; sepals 4, free; petals 4, free; stamens 6; ovary superior.
Fruits: A silique; 3-6 cm long, spreading, on short, thick pedicels.
Habitat: Woods, hedges and other shady places.
Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No