Common name: Lesser Swinecress
Lepidium didymum L. APNI* Synonyms: Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm. APNI*
Description: Annual or perennial 15–30 cm high, prostrate to ascending, glabrous to pilose, foetid.
Basal leaves to 9 cm long, petiolate, pinnatisect with 3–7 pairs of pinnatifid lobes, lobes ± linear; stem leaves reducing to entire.
Flowers < 2 mm long, white. Stamens usually 2. Silicula 1.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, 2-lobed, constricted at septum; valves subglobose; pedicel 2–3 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread weed. Native of South America & Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *NWP, *SWP, *LHI
Text by L. Retter & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990) as Coronopus didymus
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