Bushy Wallflower, Spreading Wallflower, Wormseed Mustard, Treacle Mustard

(Erysimum repandum L.)

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

young flowering plant▲

flowering plant with long fruit structures▲▼

Bushy Wallflower, Spreading Wormseed:  (pp. 208-209 in Weeds of the Great Plains—not in Weeds of the Northeast)

      branching annual weed that grows 0.5-2’ tall with narrow, toothed margin basal leaves

      flowers are small, yellow in terminal racemes

      fruit is slender, very long silque—2-5” long—making plant look like densely branched, leafless plant at maturity

      common in winter annual crops, forages, roadsides, non-crop areas