Perennial, 10–80 cm high, stout, woody at base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, usually entire; lower leaves petiolate; upper leaves subsessile. Sepals 9–14 mm long; petals 20–30 mm long, purple, pink or white. Fruit more or less erect, linear, 4–16 cm long, 3–5 mm wide; valves compressed; apex with two lateral horns less than 3 mm long; pedicels erect to spreading, 10–25 mm long. Flowers spring.
GipP. Also naturalised WA, SA, New Zealand. Native to Europe, north-west Africa. This common garden plant grows on walls, banks and cliffs near the sea in its native habitat, and in Victoria it has become established near the Queenscliff lighthouse.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Brassicaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 399–459. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
