Flowers and fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Fruiting plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill, NSW

Common Name

Veined Peppercress

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Annual or perennial forb to 30cm tall or sprawling.  Leaves leathery to succulent, alternating up the stems, linear to flat, to 5cm long, 1-3mm wide, hairless, with entire edges and blunt tips.  Sometimes leafless in dry conditions.  Flowers with 4 white petals with purple veins, in racemes which lengthen as the fruiting bodies mature, at the tops of the stems.  Endangered Vic.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 328

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