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northern tansy-mustard

Habit Annuals or biennials; eglandular or glandular distally; glabrate to moderately pubescent, trichomes dendritic, sometimes mixed with simple ones.
Stems

erect, unbranched or sometimes branched distally, (0.5–)1.5–11(–18) dm.

Basal leaves

petiole 0.5–5 cm;

blade pinnate or, sometimes, 2-pinnate, broadly oblanceolate to ovate in outline, 2.5–11.4(–15.2) cm, lateral lobes lanceolate, (to 10 × 4 mm), margins incised.

Cauline leaves

sessile or shortly petiolate;

blade smaller distally, distal lobes often narrower, surfaces often glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

Racemes

elongated or not in fruit, (flowers overtopped by developing fruits).

Flowers

sepals erect, yellowish, oblong, 1.6–2.7 mm, glabrous;

petals narrowly oblanceolate, 2–2.5 × 0.3–0.6 mm;

median filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

anthers 0.3–0.4 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate to ascending, (often recurved in age), slender, (3–)4–9(–13) mm.

Fruits

erect to widely spreading, narrowly linear, slightly torulose, (9–)14–30(–34) × 0.6–1.1 mm, (usually terete, rarely slightly flattened, often curved inward);

valves each with obscure midvein;

septum not veined;

ovules 30–62 per ovary;

style obsolete, 0.07–0.3 mm, glabrous.

Seeds

uniseriate, light brown, narrowly oblong, 1–1.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm.

2n

= 14.

Descurainia sophioides

Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Open meadows, eroded peat, roadsides, disturbed and waste sites, rocky outcrops, mining dumps, gravelly grounds, stream banks, gullies
Elevation 0-1000 m (0-3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; BC; MB; NT; NU; YT; Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia)
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Source FNA vol. 7, p. 529.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Descurainieae > Descurainia
Sibling taxa
D. adenophora, D. brevisiliqua, D. californica, D. incana, D. incisa, D. kenheilii, D. longepedicellata, D. nelsonii, D. obtusa, D. paradisa, D. pinnata, D. sophia, D. torulosa
Synonyms Sisymbrium sophioides, Hesperis arctica, Sisymbrium arcticum, Sophia sophioides
Name authority (Fischer ex Hooker) O. E. Schulz: in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr. 86[IV,105]: 316. (1924)
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