CAPSELLA BURSA-PASTORIS (L.) Madic.
Family: Brassicaceae
Common name: Shepherdspurse.
Ecol. & Biol: Annual or generally biennial.
Stem: 20-50 cm tall, smooth or slightly hairy,
branched arising from basal rosette of variable leaves.
Leaves: alternate with the lower
ones deeply lobed, upper ones are few and narrow, lanceolate or triangled or toothed,
clasping the step with the pair of earlike lobes at the base.
Inflorescence: flowers - white,
1.5-3 ram, long, 2-4 mm in diameter, appearing in loose and elongated racemes upto 2 cm.
Fruit - triangular shaped called siliculae. Seed - oblong, very small, reddish brown or
light yellow 1-2.5 mm long, 0.5-0.75 rarn wide, with a single ridges on each side.
Flowering time: May - July.