| Descurainia sophioides (Fisch.) O. E. Schulz | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Sisymbrium sophioides Fisch. | ||
| Description | Very similar to D. sophia, but more or less densely glandular-pubescent with capitate glands; upper leaves sometimes simply pinnate; siliques sometimes slightly thicker. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel bars, disturbed soil; native. Described from Hudson Bay to Alaska. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Specimens with both stellate and glandular hairs, that occur especially around villages, are considered to be the hybrid D. sophia X sophioides. |
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.