Scientific name: Aphanes arvensis L.
Common name: Parsley-piert
Description
Habit: A small, hairy annual, to 20 cm high.
Stems: Erect to semi-erect.
Leaves: Alternate, short-stalked, to 1 cm long, greyish green, irregularly and deeply palmately lobed, lobes narrow; with leafy, large stipules, divided less than halfway into broad triangular lobes.
Flowers: Green, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, in axillary heads, minute and partly concealed by stipules; calyx of 4 sepals, large teeth; stamens 1; carpel 1, deeply within calyx-tube; with hypanthium.
Fruits: A small achene, enclosed within calyx-tube and crowned by spreading calyx-teeth; structure more than 2 mm long.
Habitat: Roadsides, walls, rocks.Distribution: Frequent on the limestone, rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No