Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brassica x napus
Common name
Rape, Canola, Coleseed, Rutabaga, Swede
Family
Brassicaeae
Where found
Disturbed sites. Escape from cultivation. Widespread but not common. North of the ACT.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 1.5 m tall. Taproot robust, sometimes somewhat swollen. Leaves scarcely fleshy, alternating up the stems, 10-40 cm long, glaucous, the lower leaves deeply lobed, with a large terminal lobe and smaller lateral lobes, upper leaves entire, stem-clasping. Flowers pale yellow, with 4 petals 8–15 mm long, in clusters. Flowers spring. Seed cases 4–10 cm long (including the beak), 2–4 mm wide, obscurely 4-angled Beak 5–30 mm long. Stalk 15–30 mm long. Seeds dark brown to black.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brassica~x+napus (accessed 18 April 2021)
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