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Capsella grandiflora
Grand shepherd's purse is a small annual or biennial weed in the cabbage family, known for its unusually wide petals. It is a wild relative of common shepherd's purse and of Arabidopsis, and is grown mainly for study rather than for the garden.
Capsella grandiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Brassicaceae family. It is referred to by the common name grand shepherd's-purse and is a close relative of Arabidopsis thaliana. It is predicted together with C. orientalis to be the surviving progenitor of C. bursa-pastoris.
The main signature of this plant compared to other Capsella species is its wide flower petals. Together with C. rubella, the species is used as a model plant to study the evolution of self-incompatibility into self-compatibility in plant reproduction.
Shepherd's purse · Pink Shepherd's Purse · Capsella orientalis · Pink Shepherd's Purse · Shepherd's Purses
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Capsella grandiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
