Syn.: Lepidium draba L.
Family: Brassicaceae Burnett
Distribution: Native of Mediterranean and Central Asian, today abundantly naturalized almost in the whole world – Europe, North and South America, Arabia etc.
Ecology: It grows as weed in fields, orchards, gardens, parks, on wasteland, rubble and trenches. Flowers from April to July.
Description: A grey-downy perennial herb up to 50(-70) cm high, the basal leaves ovate, stem leaves eliptical up to 10 cm in length. The flowers in branched, crowded racemes, corollas white.
Note: The seeds have taste like pepper.
These images were taken in Czechia, Prague, quarry in Radotínské údolí (April 21, 2007).
