Shepherd's-purse type 16 - Capsella bursa-pastoris type 16
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Species Description
Appears to be locally frequent around the Floating Harbour; indicating it probably arrived here via the city's past shipping trade. Online representation shows it to be present around London, Oxford, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is probably present around city ports and docks throughout the UK. A squat plant with almost succulent leaves, pinnatifid, lobes rounded, tightly squashed together and overlapping (a bit like endive); stem short, simple and inconspicuous, instead the flowers often arise directly from the rosette; sepals magenta in bud, becoming green with magenta margins at maturity, hairy; petals narrowly obovate c. 2 x as long as wide; capsules rosey-red, obovate-rounded, concave-sided, scarcely notched, style well-exserted, held on long whispy, ascending and slightly outward-curving pedicels >c.5 x in length.
A distinctive squat compact plant with thick leathery glabrous leaves which are divided into crowded overlapping lobes which are gibbous but become less so with age, have a broad rounded terminal lobe and purple petioles.
Recorded from Bristol Harbour near Hotwells by Maico Weites and this
Appears to be the same as some photos on GBIF of Capsella rubella taken from the Netherlands by Sipke Gonggrijp but it's not C. rubella.
Also this by Peter Ceulemans and this by Jasper Leys from Belgium.
And this taken from London by Daniel Cahen.
Also a match for this, this, this, this, this by from London and Oxford, Joss Carr.
A match for this, this by Joh and this by Collala and this by Jochen Knabben from Germany.