| Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medic. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Thlaspi bursa pastoris L. | ||
| Common name | shepherd’s purse | ||
| Description | Basal leaves variable in form from entire, toothed, to pinnatifid; stem leaves sessile, sagittate; petals white, about 2 mm long, longer than sepals; silicles tri- angular, with straight or somewhat convex sides, shallowly emarginate. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.