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Pink Shepherd's-purse

Capsella rubella

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) santa_esveralda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	441
Alaska	424
France	147
Italy	132
Nord-Ovest	60
Occitanie	37
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	35
Centro	27
Nord-Est	23
Bretagne	21

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Mustards, Capers, and Allies · Brassicales
Family	mustard family · Brassicaceae
Genus	Shepherd's-purses · Capsella

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Pink Shepherd's-purse with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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