In a cereal field a little plant keeps very straight in the first sunrays of this May morning.
Field Pepperwort (Lepidium campestre) is a member of the Brassicaceae family that can be found in cultivated fields and more ruderal places on dry and poor soil, especially on limestone. Little plants are vertical, larger ones have branches that stick out like on a candelabra.
The flowers do not amount to much, they are small, just four petals around a flat round silicula that soon becomes much larger than the flower itself.
The fruits sont slightly winged and they have a small depression on top.