Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sisymbrium officinale
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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Read more about Hedge Mustard at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sisymbrium officinale
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sisymbrium officinale
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Sisymbrium officinale
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-14-001:
Sisymbrium officinale var. officinale FAMILY Brassicaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Sisymbrium officinale var. leiocarpum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Erysimum officinale
COMMON NAME:
Hedge Mustard
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_erof_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sisymbrium officinale
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sisymbrium officinale
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sisymbrium officinale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Sisymbrium officinale
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-14-001:
Sisymbrium officinale var. officinale
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Sisymbrium officinale var. leiocarpum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Erysimum officinale
3228
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Fields, pastures, barnyards, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal rosette usually absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow (mostly uniform in color)
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Silique
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p241
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p057
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