Stems and leaves. Photo: Stanley Barker, Burke Rd Billabong, Melbourne, Vic

Fruiting bodies. Photo: Stanley Barker, Burke Rd Billabong, Melbourne, Vic

Fruiting bodies. Photo: Stanley Barker, Burke Rd Billabong, Melbourne, Vic

Base. Photo: Stanley Barker, Burke Rd Billabong, Melbourne, Vic

Base. Photo: Stanley Barker, Burke Rd Billabong, Melbourne, Vic

Common Name

Peppercress, Native Peppercress

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Annual to perennial forb to 60cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-9cm long, 1-15mm wide, flat to linear, hairless, with pointed tips, edges hairy to hairless, and lobed or toothed to entire. Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), with 0 or 4 tiny petals, in racemes which elongate as the fruiting bodies mature, at the tops of the stems. Poorly known Vic.

PlantNET description with line drawing and photo of dried plants:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lepidium~pseudohyssopifolium