Eruca vesicaria |
Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae |
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arugula, garden-rocket, rocket, rocket-salad |
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Habit | Annuals, biennials, or perennials [shrubs]; eglandular. | |
Cauline leaves | petiolate or sessile; blade base auriculate or not, margins entire, dentate, serrate, or pinnately lobed. |
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Racemes | usually ebracteate, often elongated in fruit. |
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Flowers | actinomorphic; sepals erect, ascending, or spreading, lateral pair saccate or not basally; petals white, cream, yellow, pink, lilac, lavender, or purple, claw present, often distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen 3-colpate. |
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Fruits | silicles or siliques, dehiscent or indehiscent, usually segmented, usually latiseptate or terete (subterete or 4-angled in Erucastrum) [angustiseptate]; ovules (1–)2–276[–numerous] per ovary; style usually distinct (absent in Cakile, obscure in Carrichtera, obsolete in Eruca); stigma entire or strongly 2-lobed (sometimes slightly 2-lobed in Cakile). |
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Seeds | biseriate, uniseriate, or aseriate; cotyledons usually conduplicate, rarely accumbent or incumbent (in Cakile). |
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Trichomes | absent or simple. |
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Eruca vesicaria |
Brassicaceae tribe Brassiceae |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; CT; IA; IL; KS; MD; MI; MO; MT; ND; NE; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OR; PA; SD; TX; UT; VT; WA; WV; AB; BC; MB; ON; QC; SK; Europe (Spain); Asia; nw Africa [Introduced also in South America, Australia]
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North America; Eurasia; n Africa [Introduced widely] |
Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Genera 46, species ca. 245 (13 genera, 28 species in the flora). The generic boundaries in Brassiceae are largely artificial, and the number of genera may be substantially reduced. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 434. | FNA vol. 7, p. 419. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Brassiceae > Eruca | Brassicaceae |
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Synonyms | Brassica vesicaria | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Cavanilles: Descr. Pl., 426. (1802) | de Candolle: Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 242. (1821) |
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