Prostrate hutchinsia

Hornungia procumbens, commonly known as oval purse or hutchinsia, is a small annual herb in the family Brassicaceae with a wide native distribution across Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia, and naturalised in parts of North America and Australia. The plant typically grows 2 to 15 centimetres tall, with one or several slender, ascending or procumbent stems arising from a slim taproot. The basal leaves form a loose rosette and are pinnately lobed or deeply pinnatifid with three to seven oblong segments, while stem leaves are smaller and similarly divided. Tiny white flowers, only 1 to 2 millimetres across, are borne in elongating racemes; each flower has four petals and six stamens. Fruits are flattened, oval to elliptic silicles 2 to 4 millimetres long, notched at the apex, each chamber containing one or two minute brown seeds. It grows on bare sandy or saline soils, dune slacks, fallow ground, and disturbed steppe vegetation, often flowering in early spring.