Author | L. | |
Distribution | Mountains to the middle Coastal Plain; absent from the Sandhills and nearly all of the outer Coastal Plain.
Native to Eurasia; in N.A. throughout. | |
Abundance | Fairly common in the Mountains, but uncommon in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Apparently absent from the Sandhills and southern Piedmont, and the outer Coastal Plain except for Currituck County. | |
Habitat | Fields, cropfields, roadsides, railroad margins, barnyards, disturbed soil. | |
Phenology | Flowering and fruiting March-July. | |
Identification | Field Pennycress usually grows 1-2 feet tall and is a rather "leafy" mustard species. There are many stem leaves; they are sessile and with backward pointing lobes that clasp the stem; lance-shaped to elliptical and with low teeth. The flowers are small and white, and occur on long racemes; the pods are large, obovate or suborbicular, and broadly winged. | |
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State Rank | SE | |
Global Rank | GNR | |
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USACE-agcp | UPL link |
USACE-emp | UPL link |