Family |
Brassicaceae
Sisymbrium officinale
(L.) Scop.
Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.
First published in Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 2: 26 (1771).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, p. 99, Pl. XXXVII, 4; 1970)
Description
Life-form & habit: Erect annual, often branched, 5–90 cm tall.
Leaves: Lower leaves deeply pinnately divided, with an approximately oval outline and a large terminal lobe.
Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers almost stalkless, on pedicels only 1–2 mm long; petals 2–4 mm long. Ovary with 10–20 ovules.
Fruit: Conical siliques, 10–20 mm long, tapering strongly towards the tip and pressed closely against the inflorescence axis; style about 1 mm long.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Spring.
Habitat & elevation: Rubble, waste ground and cultivated land.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Beirut, Batroun, Tripoli, Abey, Harissa, Qannoubine, the Akkar mountains, Chtaura, Zahle and Hasbani.
Syrian distribution: Tartous, the Alaouite mountains, Slenfe, 20 km south of El Ourdou, Qalaat Semaan, Oudehi, Homs, west of Damascus and Er Raha.
Recorded locations: Kfertay.
Native range: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Russia, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Selvagens, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine.
Introduced into: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Delaware, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Florida, Georgia, Great Britain, Gulf States, Haiti, Hawaii, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Jamaica, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nansei-shoto, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Peru, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Yakutiya, Yemen, Yukon.