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Capsella bursa-pastoris · wildlife atlas entry

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Capsella bursa-pastoris , known by its common name shepherd's purse because of its triangular flat fruits, which are purse-like, is a small (up to 0.5 m) annual and ruderal flowering plant in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It is native to eastern Europe and Asia minor, but is naturalized and considered a common weed in many parts of the world, especially in colder climates, including British Isles, where it is regarded as an archaeophyte, North America and China, but... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

shepherd's-purse — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) JosÃ© MarÃa Escolano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Record card

Scientific name	Capsella bursa-pastoris
Rank	species
Community observations	102,385 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Brassicales › family Brassicaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Frideswide Square (Stop R8), Oxford OX1 1HU, UK
(c) appleball, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Palmerston, Otago, NZ
(c) Jenny Saito, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Loburn, New Zealand
(c) Zachary Ngow, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Liezen, Österreich
(c) Sepp Schmid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-16 · Семилукский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-16 · Семилукский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

shepherd's-purse photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-16 · Семилукский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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