Descurainia sophia |
Descurainia pinnata |
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flixweed |
western tansymustard |
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Habit | Finely stellate, grayish annual, the stems 3-10 dm. tall, usually branched above and also occasionally branched below. | Greenish to grayish annual, finely and sometimes glandular above, the usually freely-branched stem 1-7 dm. tall. |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, mainly cauline, numerous, 2-10 cm. long, oblong-ovate to oblanceolate, repeatedly compound into linear segments 1 mm. long. |
Leaves alternate, mainly cauline, broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate, the lower petiolate, 3-10 cm. long, bipinnate-pinnatifid to pinnate-pinnatifid, somewhat toothed, the segments linear or a little broader; upper leaves reduced, usually pinnatifid into linear segments. |
Flowers | Inflorescence of bractless racemes that are often half the length of the plant; pedicles slender, about 10 mm. long; sepals 4, spreading, 2-2.5 mm. long, greenish; petals 4, yellowish, filiform, spatulate, shorter than the sepals; stamens 6, well exerted; stigma sessile. |
Inflorescence of bractless racemes; pedicles 3-18 mm. long, spreading and often bent to ascending; sepals 4, 1-2 mm. long, spreading; petals 4, pale to bright yellow, 1.5-3.5 mm. long; stamens 6; style inconspicuous. |
Fruits | Siliques nearly erect, terete, linear, 2-3 cm. long and 1-1.5 mm. broad, somewhat lumpy, rounded at the tip; seeds in 1 series. |
Siliques 4-20 mm. long and about 1.5 mm. broad, narrowly elliptic in outline, rounded at the tip; seeds in 2 series at mid-length. |
Descurainia sophia |
Descurainia pinnata |
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Flowering time | March-July | April-July |
Habitat | Weed of dry waste ground and other disturbed areas. | Weedy native of fairly dry, open ground. |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades in Washington; Alaska to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Introduced from Eurasia | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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