teesdalia

[Named after Robert Teesdale, a Yorkshire botanist, author of a catalogue of plants growing around Castle Howard.] Bot.: A genus of Thlaspidee or Thlaspide. The petals are unequal; the filaments with basal scales; the pod oblong. Known species two, from Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia. Teesdalia nudi caulis , the Naked-stalked Teesdalia, is best known. The stems, which are generally numerous, are four to eighteen inches high; the leaves almost entirely radical, lyra to-pinnatifid; the flowers white. Common in England in sandy and gravelly places, rare in Scotland. Flowers in April and June. The other species is T. lepidium , or regular is , found in Spain, . Both are fitted for rockeries in gardens.