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garden radish, wild radish

jointed charlock

Habit Plants with or without fleshy roots. Plants without fleshy roots.
Stems

(1)4–13 dm.

(2)3–8 dm, retrorsely hispid.

Basal leaves

2–60 × 1–20 cm;

margins lyrate; pinnatisect, or dentate;

lateral lobes 1–12 on each side of midvein; to 10 × 5 cm;

petioles 1–30 cm.

3–15(22) × 1–5 cm;

margins lyrate; pinnatifid, or dentate;

lateral lobes 1–4 on each side of midvein; < terminal lobes;

petioles 1–6 cm.

Cauline leaves

margins uppermost undivided, dentate, subsessile.

margins uppermost dentate, subsessile.

Inflorescences

fruiting pedicels divaricate to ascending, 5–40 mm.

fruiting pedicels divaricate or ascending, 7–25 mm.

Flowers

sepals 5.5–10 mm;

petals 15–25 × 3–8 mm, pink, purple or white;

claws to 1.4 cm;

styles 1–4 cm.

sepals 7–11 mm;

petals 15–25 × 4–7 mm, yellow or creamy white;

claws to 1.5 cm;

styles 1–5 cm.

Fruits

fusiform, lanceolate; ovoid, or cylindric, valvular segments 1–3.5 mm;

seed-bearing distal segments (1)3–15(25) cm × (5)7–13(15) mm; corky, not ribbed; smooth or rarely slightly constricted, not breaking between seeds.

linear to narrowly lanceolate, valvular segments 1–1.5 mm;

distal segments (1.5)2–11(14) cm × (2.5)3–8(11) mm, longitudinally ribbed, constricted and breaking between seeds.

Seeds

2.5–4 mm.

2.5–3.5 × 1.8–2.5 mm.

2n

=18.

=18.

Raphanus sativus

Raphanus raphanistrum

Distribution
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Discussion

Waste places, fields, gardens, roadsides, disturbed areas, orchards. Flowering Apr–Oct. 0–900 m. Est, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, scattered throughout eastern Canada and US; Africa, Asia, Europe. Exotic.

Roadsides, disturbed areas, orchards, fields. Flowering Mar–Aug. 0–200 m. CR, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; scattered throughout North America; Asia, Europe. Exotic.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 504
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 504
Ihsan Al-Shehbaz
Sibling taxa
R. raphanistrum
R. sativus
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