Bushy Wallflower, Spreading Wallflower, Wormseed Mustard, Treacle Mustard

(Erysimum repandum L.)

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

▲ basal rosettes that form prior to flowering

▲▼ young flowering plants

▲▼ flowering plants with long fruit structures

▲ flower and fruit detail

Bushy Wallflower, Spreading Wormseed: 

      branching annual weed that grows 6-24 inches 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