The white flowers are small and numerous in dense, terminal racemes. There are 2, 4 or 6 stamens. The fruit is a silicula, laterally compressed. The valves have a wing or keel. Upper stem leaves are numerous, and arrow shaped often toothed.

Lepidium heterophyllum

Oval/rounded oblong fruits with apical wings to which the style is fused; style shorter than or equal to notch at apex of fruit; lower and middle leaves entire or slightly lobed

Either obtain confirmation from a County Recorder before submitting a record, or submit detailed images showing key features.  We recommend that you take and retain a specimen; the County Recorder may wish to see this for confirmation. (RPR)

Cultivated land, grassland, roadsides, walls and wasteland.

May to August.

Annual, biennial and perennial herbs.

England Red List: Near Threatened

In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi & Evans, 1988) it was found in 10 of the 617 tetrads, but not recorded in the Flora of Rutland (Messenger 1971).

In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (archaeophyte); rare.  

It is on the local VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall & Woodward, 2022) as Locally Scarce