Camelina microcarpa

Small-seeded False Flax, Littlepod False Flax

Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC.

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

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▲ ▼ mature flowering plants

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Small-seeded False Flax:

also called little seed false flax
winter annual that first forms a rosette of linear to arrow-shaped medium to bright green leaves with pointed leaf tip and smooth margins; leaves often quite hairy, but some not really hairy
sends up one to many flowering stems that grow 12-30 inches tall; stem leaf bases clasp around stem; stem leaves narrowly triangular
flowers small, bright yellow to pale yellow in terminal spikes
wproduces oval, rounded to flattened pods (siliques), about 1/8 inch long, with a short “beak" at its tip; pods are held out from main stem at about a 45 degree angle
common on roadsides, winter annual crops, disturbed sites