Pictures of shepherd's purse:

Shepherd's purse belongs to the genus Shepherd's purse of the family Cruciferae in plant taxonomy as a low-growing annual or biennial herb, with the typical features of the family Cruciferae, i.e., angular fruits.

Capsicum is distributed all over the north and south of our country, usually wild, individual cultivation, generally growing in the field, wasteland, roadside, in the forest there is no growth of capsicum.

Shepherd's purse's growth cycle is usually a year, individual warm places have biennial, it is usually in March around the time of germination and leaf development, March to April flowering, six to July fruit maturity, to October after the plant dry. Note that the appearance of the caper varies greatly between the leaf development stage and the flowering and fruiting stage.

Points of identification of caper:

1, traits: it is a low herb, height 10-50 centimeters, stem erect, not forked or from the lower part of the fork, stem hairy.

2, leaves: basal leaves rosary arranged, flat on the ground, blade pinnatipartite, fiddle-pinnatipartite or irregularly pinnatipartite, occasionally the blade is undivided, usually the apical lobe is particularly large, 2-5 cm long, petiole narrowly winged; the leaves on the stem are lanceolate, alternate, 1-3 cm long, bald at the top, arrow-shaped at the base, clasping, with sparsely serrated edges; both surfaces of the leaf blade are hairy.

3, flowers: racemes elongated after flowering, up to 20 centimeters long; flowers small, white; sepals long ovate, nearly erect, 1-2 millimeters long, petals ovate, shortly clawed, blooming in March-April.

4. Fruit: short-horned fruit obtriangular or obcordate-triangular, 5-8 mm long, glabrous, flattened, slightly concave at the tip, with obvious reticulate veins on the surface, dehiscent at maturity, seeds bright brown, about 1 mm long, June-July fruit maturity.