Family: Brassicaceae Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Flowering time: March-July. Biennial Found on moist, relatively fertile ground in woodland, hedges and on roadsides and river banks. A usually unbranched, more/less hairless plant with 4-petalled white flowers followed by erect beak-less fruit on short thick stalks. The pale-green, coarse-toothed, heart-shaped leaves smell of garlic when crushed. Important foodplant for the larvae of the Orange-tip butterfly

Garlic Mustard, Alliaria petiolata
Parkstone, Dorset. May 2013