Hare's Ear Mustard

Conringia orientalis (L.) Dumort.

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

▲▼ mature plants

▲ leaf detail, showing leaves clasping around stem

▲▼ flowers and fruit (silicles)

Hare's Ear Mustard

(Photos taken in central Montana)

* winter annual or biennial broadleaf weed of agronomic crops in northern Midwest

* has oval stem leaves that clasp around the stem and unlobed basal leaves

* flowers pale yellow to white; fruit very long, thin pods (siliques)