Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Brassica tournefortii

Flowers. Photographer Stickpen, California, USA 

Plant. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Line drawings. c. plant; d. seed case. M. Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Family

Brassicaceae

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, roadsides, disturbed areas, dunes, and wetlands. Sydney area, near Bathurst, and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.60 m tall. Stems bristly at the base becoming hairless above. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 6-30 cm long, deeply lobed, bristly, particulary the lower surface. Stem leaves becoming smaller up the stems, eventually linear and bract-like. Flowers pale yellow fading to white, with 4 petals each 5–8 mm long. Flowers in clusters. Flowers Apr.–Oct. Seed cases erect, 3–7 cm long (including the beak), 2–3 mm wide; constricted between the seeds, midrib not prominent. Beak 8–20 mm long, with 1 or 2 seeds. Stalk 7–25 mm long. Seeds reddish-brown.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brassica~tournefortii   (accessed 6 January, 2021)