Lesser Swinecress

(Coronopus didymus)

Lesser swinecress

Characteristics
Seedling Leaves & Flowers Fruit
Lesser swinecress seedling swinecress leaves flowers swinecress fruit

Growing habit: Prostrate, procumbent, spreading or ascending extensively branching annual or biennial herb

Root/Stem anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot

Leaves: Rosette of leaves around base, alternately arranged up stem, wide, oblong in general outline, pinnatifid, leaf segments entire or with a few deep teeth

Reproduction: Raceme inflorescence, petals small, white, filiform

Reference: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice