| Brassica rapa L. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Brassica campestris L. | ||
| Common name | bird’s rape | ||
| Description | Annual, with thin root; stem with few branches; lower leaves bright green, with setose hairs, toothed to pinnatifid, with large ultimate lobe, the upper glaucous, clasping; inflorescence short, the flowers extending beyond buds; sepals spreading; petals pale yellow; siliques gradually narrowed into slender beak. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; escaped from cultivation. Described from England and Belgium. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.