Heart-podded Hoary Cress

Lepidium draba

Heart-podded Hoary Cress is a little plant with pretty white flowers. It grows in many places and can spread quickly, making it a common sight in fields and gardens.

Hábitat: Grasslands

Aspecto

The Heart-podded Hoary Cress has distinctive greyish-green leaves and clusters of tiny, four-petaled white flowers. Its most unique feature is the abundance of flattened, heart-shaped or roundish seed pods that develop after blooming, covering the plant in a silvery-green shimmer.

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Heart-podded Hoary Cress

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Plantas

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

Even though it's a weed, its young leaves are sometimes eaten in salads or cooked.

Its tiny white flowers grow in dense, puffy clusters, looking like fluffy clouds!

The unique heart-shaped seed pods make this plant easy to identify in fields.

This super tough plant thrives along roadsides and disturbed land!

Habilidades especiales

Heart-podded Hoary Cress can grow deep taproots and widespread rhizomes that help it survive drought and spread rapidly.

Heart-podded Hoary Cress produces thousands of seeds, ensuring many new plants can grow and spread to new places.

Heart-podded Hoary Cress can form dense patches, helping it outcompete other plants for vital sunlight and nutrients.

Medidas y detalles

Altura: 20-60 cm
Extensión: 30-100 cm
Tamaño de la flor: 0.2-0.4 cm
Temporada de floración: Spring to early Summer
Comestible: Sí
Toxicidad: Leve
Ciclo de vida: Perenne
Método de polinización: Insectos

Conexiones ecológicas

pollinates

Honey bee

Apis mellifera

Gathers nectar and pollen from flowers

eaten by

Small Cabbage White

Pieris rapae

Larvae feed on the leaves

eaten by

Domestic sheep

Ovis aries

Graze on its foliage in pastures

Rasgos

Floración

Las plantas con flores son cualquier planta que produce flores como parte de su ciclo reproductivo.

Bienal

Las plantas bienales completan su ciclo de vida en dos temporadas de crecimiento, formando típicamente follaje en el primer año y floreciendo o semillando en el segundo.