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Brassica fruticulosa
Cirillo
Family:
Brassicaceae
Mediterranean Cabbage
FNA
Resources
Suzanne I. Warwick in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals, biennials, or perennials;
glabrous or nearly so.
Stems
branched distally, 3-9 dm.
Basal leaves
(early deciduous); petiole 1.5-6 cm; blade lyrate-pinnatifid, 3-10(-15) cm × 10-65 mm, lobes 1-3 (or 4) each side.
Cauline leaves
shortly petiolate; blade (often lanceolate, reduced in size distally), base tapered or cuneate, not auriculate, (apex acute).
Racemes
paniculately branched.
Fruiting pedicels
spreading to divaricately ascending, (slender), (5-)10-15(-25) mm.
Flowers:
sepals 3-8 × 1-1.7 mm; petals pale yellow, narrowly obovate, 7-15 × 3-4 mm, claw 2-3 mm, apex rounded; filaments 3-6 mm; anthers 1.5-2 mm; gynophore 1-1.5 mm in fruit.
Fruits
(stipitate), spreading to divaricately ascending, strongly torulose, linear, subcylindric, 1.5-3 cm × 1.5-2 mm; valvular segment with 5-13 seeds per locule, 1.2-2.5 cm, terminal segment seedless or 1-seeded, (conic), 3-6 mm.
Seeds
brown or yellow, 0.6-1.2 mm diam.; seed coat finely reticulate-alveolate, not mucilaginous when wetted.
2
n
= 16.
Flowering Dec-Mar. Coastal plains and basins, deserts, valleys; 0-300 m; introduced; Calif.; s Europe; nw Africa.
Brassica fruticulosa
is naturalized in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Mateo counties.
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