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