Indian Hedge-Mustard is an annual or biennial herb up
to 2 feet tall, branched. Flowers are borne in 15-25-flowered racemes,
up to 20 cm long in fruit. Flowers are 5-6 mm across, yellowish. Petals
7-9 mm long, 2-4 mm broad, stamens 4-5: 5-6 mm long. Sepals are 4-5 mm
long. Flower-stalks 3-6 mm long, thickened. Basal leaves are in a
rosette. often withering before flowering, stalked, usually pinnately
lobed, end lobe triangular, oblong or lanceshaped, often arrow-shaped.
Uppermost stem leaves are narrowly lanceshaped or linear, often
arrow-shaped. Seedpods are 5-10 cm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, straight,
erect or rising up, linear-cylindrical. Indian Hedge-Mustard is found
in Macaronesia, Mediterranean to W. Himalaya. Flowering: April-July.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Lahaul Valley, Himachal Pradesh.
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