Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Reseda luteola
Common name
Weld, Wild mignonette
Family
Resedaceae
Where found
Western Slopes, ACT, and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere. Grassy areas, crops, disturbed sites, roadsides, and stream banks.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 1.5 m high. Stems ribbed, hairless. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, bases continuing down the stems. Rosette leaves 7–15 cm long, 7–12 mm wide, margins sometimes wavy or slightly toothed near the base. Stem leaves 1–9 cm long, 2–9 mm wide, becoming smaller in size up the stems, sometimes with a small abrupt point. Flowers yellowish or pale yellow-cream, with 3-4 petals each 3–5 mm long. Flower spike to 80 cm long. Flowers most of year.
Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Reseda~luteola (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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