Hare's Ear Mustard

Hare's Ear Mustard

Conringia orientalis (L.) Dumort.

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

▲ ▼ mature plants

▲ leaf detail, showing leaves clasping around stem

▲ ▼ flowers and fruit (silicles)

Hare's Ear Mustard

(Photos taken in central Montana)

  • winter annual or biennial broadleaf weed of agronomic crops in northern Midwest
  • has oval stem leaves that clasp around the stem and unlobed basal leaves
  • flowers pale yellow to white; fruit very long, thin pods (siliques)

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