Scientific name: Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm.
Common name: Lesser Swine-cress
Description
Habit: A hairy annual, to 40 cm high.
Stems: Trailing to ascending, hairy.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, all deeply pinnately and finely lobed into narrow segments.
Flowers: Mauve or white, actinomorphic hermaphrodite, 1 mm across, in regular, compact racemes; sepals 4, free; petals absent or if present, about 0.5 mm; fertile stamens 2-4; ovary superior.
Fruits: A silique, 4 mm across, with an apical notch eventually breaking into two halves; surface slightly wrinkled.
Habitat: Roadsides, waste ground, around farms, on sand-dunes and as a garden weed.
Distribution: Widespread but not common.
Native status: Not native
Of conservation interest: No