Hedge Mustard
Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.
Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)
▼▲rosette stage
▼▲young, mature plants beginning to send up flowering stems
▼▲mature, flowering plants
▼▲mature, flowering plants
▼▲mature, flowering plants
▲ leaves
▲ flowering stem and upward-bent, appressed fruit
Hedge Mustard:
· annual or winter annual with deeply divided basal rosette leaves; grows 2-3’ tall
· flowers are tiny, yellow, with short (1/2 – 1” long) pointed, silique that hugs flower stalk
· found in crops, nurseries, non-crop areas
· fo leaves and growth habit somewhat similar to tallhedge mustard (Sisymbrium loeslii), but tallhedge mustard has long, thin fruit that stand out from the stem, and tip of leaves are more triangular