Diplotaxis erucoides, (L.) DC.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 335

6. D. erucoides (L.) DC. , Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 2: 631 (1821)

(inch D. valentina Pau ).

Annual or overwintering, 5-50 cm. Stems 1 or many, erect or ascending, leafy. Leaves of two types: the lower 5-15 cm, in a lax basal rosette, oblong-lyrate or pinnatisect, with 6-10 lobes, or the lowermost more or less entire or irregularly toothed; the upper sessile, more or less amplexicaul; all with sparse, slender hairs. Petals (5—)7—13 mm, white, violet-veined or becoming violet after anthesis. Siliqua (10 —)18— 45 x 1 -5-3 mm, ascending, with a usually 1-seeded, conical beak up to 6 mm and almost as wide as the valves. In =14. S. W. Europe, extending eastwards to Italy; one station in Danube delta . Often casual in C. Europe. BI Co Ga Hs It Rm Sa Si.