| Author | (L.) Czernajew | |
| Distribution | Mountains and Piedmont. SERNEC specimens from Robeson and Wake are misidentified.
Native of Eurasia and Africa; in N.A. throughout. | |
| Abundance | Rare or uncommon in the Mountains; rare in the Piedmont. | |
| Habitat | Moist roadside banks, near lake, creek floodplain, sewerline R-O-W, disturbed soil. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting April-June. | |
| Identification | Chinese Mustard is an annual, grows 1-3 feet tall, glabrous, and glaucescent. The basal leaves usually are absent at flowering; if present they have a few pairs of lobes. The stem leaves have short petioles, the blades lance-shaped to obovate, margins sinuous-dentate and may also have a pair of narrow lobes near the base of the blade. The flowers are yellow; fruits are slender on ascending stalks, versus erect stalks in B. nigra. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
