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DESCRIPTION:
Swinecress (wartcress) is an annual broadleaf weed with branching prostrate
stems. Cotyledons (seed leaves) are hairless, narrowly egg-shaped, have rounded tips, and long tapered bases.
First and later leaves alternate along the stem, are divided into narrow segments, and resemble the cotyledons
except, that they often have one or more rounded course teeth, and have short hairs on the tips. Stems may
spread 3 to 24 inches (7.5 - 60 cm) along the ground but tend
to rise at the ends. Lower leaves on mature plants
grow on short stalks; upper leaves are stalkless.
Flowers are white and very small. Seed pods are deeply wrinkled
and develop two
lobes
when mature.
Broadleaf ID illustration.
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