Shepherd's-purse type 1 - Capsella bursa-pastoris type 1
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Species Description
Simplex Group. Probably var. macrocarpa Albert and more specifically C. druceana (E.B. Almq.) E.B. Almq. which is synonymous with brachycarpa and bifida - mentioned in White (1912) from Kingsweston. Has hairy, mid-green, simple to somewhat divided basal leaves but never pinnate and large capsules. A robust plant which is quite distinctive. Sepals green with white margins, glabrous, petals broad and almost rounded, scarcely exceeding sepals. This is probably the same thing - labelled as var. integrifolia as is this and this.
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Distinctive. Robust. Almost certainly referable to C. drucei. Plant to c. 45 cm tall, leaf rosette medium, c.15 cm across. Leaves entire and dentate, sometimes slightly divided, mid-green, bristly hairy with numerous simple and stellate hairs. Leaves lanceolate, less than or equal to c. 10 cm, bluntly pointed at apex, petiole medium. Stem leaves 3, simple-sagittate, dentate, less than or equal to c. 9 cm, auricles c. 10 mm. Stem green, slightly pruinose, hairy at base with stellate and simple hairs, becoming very sparse further up the stem, c. 3 mm in width at the base to c. 1 mm towards the apex. Pedicels spreading-patent, mostly c. 1.5 cm, double the length of the capsules, covered and clothed like the upper stem. Capsules straight-sided to slightly scoliotic, cardiac with an attenuate base, c. 8 x 6.5 mm, notch deep, widely angled, style not exceeding it. Lobes triangular-ovate, upwardly outwardly directed, green, sometimes slightly bronzy infused in sun, lobe turning point towards outer edge. Flowers c. 2 mm across, petals white, obovate, scarcely exceeding sepals. Sepals green, white-margined, more or less glabrous with the occasional hair.