Common Name

Sand Cress

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Annual forb to 30cm tall.  Leaves in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems, to 12cm long, to 20mm wide, flat, hairy, lobed, toothed, or entire.  Basal leaves withering without falling.  Flowers white, with 4 petals, in racemes at the tops of the stems.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 329

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pachymitus~cardaminoides

Photo of flowers. Photo by melburnian, Terrick Terrick National Park, Vic