Annual herb ; up to 60 cm tall , with fine taproot . Stems erect , branched above , glabrous or sparsely pilose . Leaves with lower leaves 4–10×2–3 cm , pinnate to lyrate-pinnate , short-lived ; upper leaves linear . Inflorescences in 20–30-flowered branched racemes . Flowers white or pink , 2-3 mm ; sepals not saccate ; petals 2–3 mm ; stamens 6 . Fruit silicula , 4–6×4–5 mm long , elliptic to suborbicular , narrowly winged and notched at the apex , stigma protruding in the notch but not exceeding the wings . Seeds 2–3 mm long , wingless , reddish brown . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Cardamon sativum (L.) Fourr.
Lepia sativa (L.) Desv.
Nasturtium sativum (L.) Moench
Thlaspi sativum (L.) Crantz
Thlaspidium sativum (L.) Spach
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Common Cress
Garden Cress
Gardencress Pepperweed
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387.*https://en.wikipedia.org *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *Patzelt, A., Harrison, T., Knees, S.G. & Hartley, L.A. (2014). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXI. New records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 71: 161-180. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org