CAPSELLAMedik. - SHEPHERD'S-PURSE
Scientific Description:
Annual or biennial herbs with simple, furcate and stellate hairs. Leaves pinnate or entire. Sepals not saccate. Petals white or pink. Filaments without appendages. Median honey glands present. Fruit a strongly compressed silicula, obcordate triangular, keeled, dehiscent, many-seeded.
Reference:
Hedge IC (1965). Capsella Medik., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 343.
Public Description:
Capsella, known as “shepherd's-purse”, is found in the Central Europe, Asia, and Nortwest America. There are approximately 9 species in the world and 4 species (4 taxa) in Türkiye. They are herbaceous annual and biennial plants which have white or pink flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsella_(plant), Accessed date: 27.12.2015.
Anonymous 2 (2015). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/genus/capsella/, Accessed date: 27.12.2015.
Anonymous 3 (2015). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Brassicaceae/Capsella//, Accessed date: 27.12.2015.
Mutlu B (2012). Capsella Medik., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 264.
