On our five day visit to the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey this was the first flowering plant we saw as we got out of the car near the botanically rich L'Ancresse Common. It isn't easy when the first plant you're confronted with is a yellow crucifer but one sniff of the crushed leaves had this one pinned down. They aren't smelly as as those of its annual cousin D. muralis but there is still that familiar faintly nauseous pong.
Edge of L'Ancresse common, Guernsey, 18th June 2004
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Added on December 9th 2004