Hedge Mustard

Hedge Mustard

Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.

Brassicaceae (Mustard Family)

▼ ▲ rosette stage

▼ ▲ young, mature plants beginning to send up flowering stems

▼ ▲ mature, flowering plants

▲ leaves

▲ flowering stem and upward-bent, appressed fruit

Hedge Mustard:

annual or winter annual with deeply divided basal rosette leaves; grows 2-3’ tall
flowers are tiny, yellow, with short (1/2 � 1" long) pointed, silique that hugs flower stalk
found in crops, nurseries, non-crop areas
fo leaves and growth habit somewhat similar to tallhedge mustard (Sisymbrium loeslii), but tallhedge mustard has long, thin fruit that stand out from the stem, and tip of leaves are more triangular