Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Raphanus raphanistrum
Common name
Wild radish, Jointed charlock
Family
Brassicaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites and roadsides, and along streams. Sydney area, ACT, and along the Hume Highway. Widespread elsewhere but not common.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 1.5 m tall. Stems rounded or slightly angled, bristly below to hairless above. Leaves green or bluish-green, bristly, deeply lobed and toothed. Basal leaves 15-30 cm long, 50-100 mm wide. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, smaller (to 7.5 cm long) and narrower. Flowers 18-40 mm in diameter, with 4 white, yellow, mauve, pink, or purplish petals usually with dark veins, in loose clusters. Seed cases 1–9 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, markedly constricted between the seeds and breaking into 1-seeded portions; beak 10–30 mm long (the beak length of 1-2 mm long quoted in PlantNET is a typo). Stalks 10–30 mm long. Flowers winter-spring.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Raphanus~raphanistrum (accessed 27 April 2021)
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