Photographs: Bantry, Co. Cork

Lesser Swine-cress / Slender Wart-cress Lepidium didymum (Coronopus didymus) Cladhthach mhín Family: Brassicaceae Flowering: June-September. Annual or biennial. Probably introduced. Tiny flowers, 1mm, often without petals. Fruit slightly rough. Feathery, 2x pinnately lobed leaves, cress-like smell when bruised. Prostrate, spreading growth habit. Usually hairy. Spread: 5-30cm. Can be frequent on damp cultivated and waste ground. Similar: Swine-cress, Lepidium coronopus is larger, usually hairless

Lesser Swine-cress, Lepidium didymum, Cladhthach mhín
Photograph immediately above shows Swinecress on the left, Lesser Swinecress on the right