In bushy places, grassy borders of fields, the Grass Pea, in bIoom, may be looked flower columbine for, as, until the flowers are out, it would be almost useless to search for it, as it is got up to resemble a grass plant exactly. It is an columbine flower annual plant, with an erect stem branching from the base, and growing to a height of about two feet, and is entirely without true leaves, leaflets or tendrils. The leaf flower columbine-stalk, however, is fiattened out until it closely resembles a blade of grass ending in a fine point, and the stipules at its base greatly help the deception. The fiowers columbine flower, which are crimson in colour, are rather small, solitary, and borne on a very long footstalk. They have the power of self-pollination.
Though only an annual it contrives to flower for about five months, June to October. Known also as Garlic Mustard. It is one of those plentiful hedgerow columbine flower weeds that are constantly met with. An annual, it is an erect - growing, freshlooking plant, though its stems have an indination to grovel instead of rise. The leaves are more flower columbine or less heart-shaped, with rounded teeth at the edges, on long stalks of soft texture and hairy beneath.
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