Falkland rock-cress grows to between 45 and 60cm, with usually more than one tough stem. It has narrow pointed leaves and tiny white four-petalled flowers arranged in dense clusters.

This is a short-lived perennial herb flowering from November to January. It is found on East and West Falkland among rocky outcrops, coastal cliffs and slopes, among Diddle-Dee, coastal dwarf shrub heath, ungrazed islands and among tussac and boxwood scrub.

Falkland rock-cress is native plant and is endemic to the Falkland Islands and endangered, having been relatively common in Hooker’s time it is now rarer probably as a direct result of sheep grazing.

This plant is legally protected. It is an offence to deliberately pick, collect, cut, uproot or destroy a protected wild plant.

IUCN Red List- Endangered & Falkland Islands Red List- Endangered

Sources include: The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands- D. M. Moore, B.Sc., Ph.D, 1968, Field Guide to the Plants of the Falkland Islands- Thomas Heller, Rebecca Upston, Richard Lewis, edited by Colin Clubbe

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