West Highland Flora

Hedge Mustard


Sisymbrium officinale

 

Sisymbrium officinale

Photo © Carl Farmer
30 June 2003 Portree, Skye

Occasional, on much-disturbed waste ground.  Not nearly as common as in most other parts of the country.

Flower diameter c 2.5-3.5 mm.  Pods c 10-15 mm

ID: Yellow flowers less than 4 mm across, pods appressed, leaves a normal green, not dark green like Wintercress.

Other features: Annual or sometimes biennial, quickly becoming a large bushy plant under favourable conditions.  Long curving infloresence-branches with pods rigidly appressed along their length are very distinctive.  Pods on short stalks almost as wide as themselves.  Leaves with a large end lobe and smaller side lobes. 

 

Sisymbrium officinale

Photo © Carl Farmer
(27 May 2003 Inverness)

  Sisymbrium officinale

Photo © Carl Farmer
(27 May 2003 Inverness)

 

Sisymbrium officinale

Photo © Carl Farmer
30 June 2003 Portree, Skye

  Sisymbrium officinale

Photo © Carl Farmer
(6 Jun 2002 Berwick-upon-Tweed)


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