Love your podcast been listening to it driving down the full length of the count

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Love your podcast been listening to it driving down the full length of the country - good driving audio - keeps you awake, alert and amused. Thank you.

I do have a question - at this time of year, late March - early April, the verges and central reservations of roads get covered in white, pin-sized blossoms - I've stopped and looked at the plants and they are a scurvy grass

This is normally found on beaches, but have clearly found a successful niche on the side if main roads - I'm sure salting the roads is a major factor in this

My question is: given the ubiquity of this plant - has this plant been spread by the road salting or has it propagated along the sides of the roads following these narrow salty corridors?

It appears to be a single species - or are there species I have yet to find?

Explanation / Answer

We think the plant in question is a native, despite its name Cochlearia danica or Danish scurvy grass. It

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