Annual or perennial herb, prostrate to ascending, with or without sparse soft hairs, malodorous; stems 15–30 cm long. Basal leaves petiolate, to 9 cm long, pinnately divided with 3–5 pairs of pinnately incised lobes; stem leaves becoming smaller, finally sessile and entire. Inflorescence exceeding leaves. Sepals 1–2 mm long; petals shorter than sepals or absent, white; stamens 2 (rarely 4); stigma sessile. Fruit bilobed, 1.5–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, notched at apex and base, constricted at septum, separating into two sub-globose portions; valve surface with pits and warts; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long. Flowers spring–summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, OtR. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Common weed of disturbed areas.
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.
