




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.
Habitat: Grasslands
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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Danger
1/5 · Very low
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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!
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.
Apis mellifera
Gathers nectar and pollen from flowers
Pieris rapae
Larvae feed on the leaves
Ovis aries
Graze on its foliage in pastures
Flowering plants are any plants that produce flowers as part of their reproductive cycle.
Biennial plants complete their life cycle over two growing seasons, typically forming foliage in the first year and flowering/seeding in the second.
This human use trait describes species cultivated or domesticated by humans for agricultural purposes, including crops and livestock.
Grassland habitats are terrestrial biomes dominated by grasses and herbaceous plants, supporting a variety of grazing animals.
Describes plants that are particularly attractive and beneficial to a wide range of pollinating organisms.
Rapid growing plants exhibit accelerated growth rates, quickly increasing in size and biomass within a short period.
Invasive species are non-native organisms that cause harm to the environment, economy, or human health.
Describes organisms that transfer pollen, enabling the fertilization and reproduction of plants.
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Danger
1/5 · Very low
Do not eat any plants you find without asking an adult first.
20-60 cm
30-100 cm
0.2-0.4 cm
Spring to early Summer
Yes
Mild
Perennial
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