white mustard

Sinapis alba

Member of yellow mustards
mustard family (family Brassicaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

There are no other wild species of this genus in California.

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• fruit not appressed
• fruit 2–4 cm long, 3–5.5 mm wide
• terminal segment flattened, seedless, 6–12 mm long
• stem 25–100 cm (ocasionally much taller)
• hairy (or rarely glabrous)
• basal leaves not in a rosette, pinnately lobed
• lateral lobes in 1–3 pairs, dentate/lobed
• distal cauline leaves short-petioled, coarsely dentate or entire
• rare

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Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora