Distribution: Occurring in scattered locations on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
Habitat: Fields, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.
Flowers: May-July
Origin: Introduced from Eurasia
Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Annual with soft hairs retrorsely aligned and appressed, the stems simple to freely branched, 1.5-8 dm. tall.
Leaves alternate, 3-20 cm. long, pinnatifid, the segments often again wavy lobed.
Flowers in a loose, elongate, bracteate raceme, the lowermost flowers sometimes in the axils of scarcely modified leaves; pedicles slender, ascending, under 1 cm. long; sepals 4, slightly saccate at the base; petals 4, pale yellow, 4-7 mm. long; stamens 6; style 1.5-3 mm. long.
Siliques 2-4.5 cm. long and 1.5 mm. thick, terete-quadrangular, the valves prominently keeled; seeds in 1 series.
Publication: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54(Beibl. 119): 56. 1916.
Sisymbrium gallicum Willd.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Erucastrum gallicum in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WA Flora Checklist: Erucastrum gallicum checklist entry.
E-Flora BC: Erucastrum gallicum atlas page.
CalPhotos: Erucastrum gallicum photos.
USDA Plants: Erucastrum gallicum information.
