Glabrous Whitlowgrass - Erophila glabrescens

Glabrous Whitlowgrass is usually a brighter green than Common Whitlowgrass and the leaves have a long-petiole. The leaves become glabrous on the surface and sometimes on the margins, though sometimes remaining ciliate along the edges, the white petals are split to halfway or less than half way.

V small plant, basal leaf-rosette, glabrous, or nearly so; petioles longer than leaf blades

Records from this species should be confirmed by a County Recorder for botany.  It is on the VC55 Rare Plant Register, and a specimen should not be taken.  Take detailed field photos and submit to NatureSpot as soon as possible; and if you think you have found it in a new location, inform the County Recorder as soon you can. (RPR)

Bare ground, roadsides, short turf, waste ground and stony places.

Annual.

Widespread in Britain and probably fairly frequent though possibly often mistaken for Common Whitlowgrass.

Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland 

In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Native, rare.  

It is listed on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall and Woodward 2022) as Locally Rare (i.e. present in less than 3 sites)