Small-seeded False Flax, Littlepod False Flax
Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC.
Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)
▲▼ mature, flowering plants
▲▼ mature flowering plants
▲▼ stems and leaves-- leaves clasp stems
▲▼ stems and leaves-- leaves clasp stems
▲ flowers
▲ flowers and fruit
▲ fruit
Small-seeded False Flax:
· also called little seed false flax
· winter annual that first forms a rosette of linear to arrow-shaped medium to bright green leaves with pointed leaf tip and smooth margins; leaves often quite hairy, but some not really hairy
· sends up one to many flowering stems that grow 12-30 inches tall; stem leaf bases clasp around stem; stem leaves narrowly triangular
· flowers small, bright yellow to pale yellow in terminal spikes
· produces oval, rounded to flattened pods (siliques), about 1/8 inch long, with a short “beak” at its tip; pods are held out from main stem at about a 45 degree angle
· common on roadsides, winter annual crops, disturbed sites