Seasonal Wild Flowers

English Scurvygrass

Cochlearia anglica

Long-leaved Scurvygrass

Brassicaeae

April to June

It is found in all round the coast but is missing from some

parts of Northeast and the Southeast.

see the BSBI distribution map for English Scurvygrass

It is found on muddy shores, estuaries and saltmashes.

English Scurvygrass is a native, biennial or perennial herb,

growing up to 40cm.

Flowers are up to 14mm across with 4 white ovate petals,

narrowing at their base into a claw.

Fruit pods are laterally flattened.

The basal leaves are in a rosette (difficult to see in a

saltmarsh crowded with plants). They are oval and

stalked.

Upper leaves are slightly lobed, sessile and clasping

the stem.

The stem is erect.

English Scurvygrass on saltmarsh, Lune estuary, Lancaster

Loose flowerhead

Individual flower - flattened pod, petals with narrow base

Pods - latterally flattened

Stalked basal leaves

Sessile, clasping upper leaves