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Danish Scurvygrass (Early scurvy-grass) Cabbage family
Cochlearia danica Cruciferae (Brassicaceae)

Danish Scurvygrass flowers early in the year, with small pale lilac flowers followed by egg-shaped pods. Its natural habitat is salt marshes, but it has spread inland, especially along roadsides, aided by the salting of roads in winter.
It differs from the similar-looking Common Scurvygrass by having kidney-shaped leaves higher up the stem and ivy-shaped leaves lower down.

Danish Scurvygrass plants Danish Scurvygrass flowers

Danish Scurvygrass leaves
Danish Scurvygrass leaves:
ivy-shaped lower down the stem
and kidney-shaped higher up





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