Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sisymbrium erysimoides

Flowering and seeding stem. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, western NSW

Line drawing. j. seeding branch. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens

Common name

Family

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, grasslands, pastures, crops, roadsides, gardens, disturbed sites, and near streams. Western Slopes.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 1.3 m tall, hairless to hairy with short hairs. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, to 15 cm long, hairy or hairless, the lower leaves dissected with 2 or 3 pairs of lateral lobes, margins toothed, upper leaves with toothed, occasionally entire, margins. Flowers yellow, with 4 petals each 1–2.5 mm long, in clusters at the tops of the stems, which elongate as the 'pods' mature. 'Pods' linear, straight, more or less horizontal, 2.5–5 cm long, 1 mm wide, stalk 2–5 mm long, thick. Flowers mainly spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sisymbrium~erysimoides (accessed 7 February, 2021)