Photographs: Bantry, Co. Cork

Swine-cress Lepidium coronopus (Coronopus squamatus) Cladhthach Family: Brassicaceae Flowering: June-September. Annual/biennial. Possibly introduced. Tiny white flowers in leaf axils, the fruit pointed or rounded at top and very rough. Numerous branched, spreading stems with deeply pinnate stalked leaves. A usually hairless plant. Mainly coastal on waste ground, trampled arable land and roadsides, rare further inland. Similar: Lesser Swinecress, Lepidium didymum is smaller, usually hairy

Swine-cress, Lepidium coronopus (Coronopus squamatus), Cladhthach
Above left: Swinecress, right: Lesser Swinecress.