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Carl Farmer |
Rare, on walls or stony ground. Flower diameter c 3-3.5 mm. Fruits c 5-7 mm long. Skye ID: Fruits as shown, with one seed each side of the midrib (visible as bulge) and a broad wing that accounts for about half the surface area of the fruit, with a style that projects beyond the fruit tip. Field Pennycress has a similar fruit but with a style much shorter than the notch in which it is housed. Other features: Has typical white crucifer flowers with 4 petals and 6 stamens. Upper leaves clasp stem at base with pointed auricles, and may be toothed or not (distantly but sharply toothed on specimen seen in Skye). Leaves near base have short stalk. Fruits are on hairy stalks (hairless in Field Pennycress). Will probably have to wait till 2005 to get pic of it in flower. |
