Scientific name: Cardamine impatiens L.
Common name: Narrow-leaved Bitter-cress
Description
Habit: Biennial, to 80 cm high.
Stems: Erect, slightly wavy at the top, little or not branched.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, base clasping the stem with 2 pointed auricles; finely pinnate with 7-23 narrowly oval to lanceolate, toothed to untoothed leaflets.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, 3.5 mm or less across, in racemes; sepals 4, free; petals 4, free; stamens 6 and ovary superior.
Fruits: A silique, with seeds in a single row; fruit with fairly long style.
Habitat: Waste ground.
Distribution: Very rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: Yes