Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RCH Shepherd, near Werribbee Gorge Park, Vic

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RG  & FJ Richardson, Ceres, Vic

Fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RG  & FJ Richardson, near Bacchus Marsh, Vic

Young plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RCH Shepherd, near Werribbee Gorge Park, Vic

Common Name

Hoary Cress, White Weed, Hoary Pepperwort

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Introduced perennial forb to 90cm tall, or sprawling. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, hairy, margins toothed to entire. Basal leaves 2.5-10cm long, stem leaves stem clasping, to 7.5cm long. Flowers fragrant, with 4 white petals, in groups at the tops of the stems. Proclaimed weed SA. Noxious weed Vic.

Description and photo (as Cardaria draba) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 320-321

eFloraSA fact sheet (as Cardaria draba):   http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Cardaria_draba