Flowers and pods. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Stackpoole State Forest NE of Goolgowi, NSW

Flowering plants. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Stackpoole State Forest NE of Goolgowi, NSW

Carpet. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Short Cress

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Annual forb, prostrate or to 40cm tall.  Leaves clustered at the base of the plant and alternating up the stem, flat, hairy, lobed to toothed.  Basal leaves to 3-13cm long,  stem leaves 0.5-3.5cm long.  Flowers fragrant, mauve, pink, or white, with 4 petals, initially in clusters of up to about 20 flowers at the ends of the stems, later elongating into racemes.

Differs from Harmsiodoxa blennodioides in that the petals are 2.2-4.4mm long, and the stalks of the fruiting bodies are stout and mostly less than 7mm long.

Differs from Harmsiodoxa puberula in that the petals are 2.2-4.4mm long.

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 324

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Harmsiodoxa~brevipes~var.+brevipes