The plant with small, pale yellow, flowers is wild raddish. It crops in busy spaces and spreads with rapid growth from seed to plant. The flowers caught my eye.
I snipped a stalk with a handy pair of scissors from my backpack. The robust plant that sprouts anywhere wilted spectacularly on the short journey home.
The stalks revived quickly in a jug with water. A few big osmotic sucks up a stem in denial it had been separated from its root system and the plant looked just fine….. for another thirty minutes while I took a few pics.
A distinctive flower structure with four non overlapping petals. The petals are covered in a hand-stitched vein pattern. A perfectly folded napkin slides effortlessly from a slim green spiky tube. The tube consists of four fused sepals.
Hermaphroditic, but can’t form offspring with itself. Insects have to get involved to help out. Technically it is pollination.
Four completely dehisced anthers with a stigma in the mix.
Apparently this flower has six stamens, four large and two small.