Irish wildflowers
Photographs: Foynes Port, Co. Limerick |
Hairy Rocket Erucastrum gallicum Family: Brassicaceae Flowering late spring to autumn. Annual. Introduced. Four-petalled pale lemon-yellow flowers with +/- erect sepals. The fruit are 2-4.5cm long and the beak is seedless. Stem leaves are +/- deeply pinnately lobed and stems and flowerbuds are hairy. Height 30-60cm An infrequent but increasing casual on waste ground and roadsides, usually near ports and possibly introduced with animal feed. Native of central Europe and the Pyrenees, now widely naturalised elsewhere in Europe and in N. America. |
Hairy Rocket, Erucastrum gallicum
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