Sisymbrium orientale

Annual or biennial, to 90 cm high, at least the lower leaves with conspicuous soft, spreading and/or reflexed hairs, these usually extending along stem and to upper leaves to some degree. Basal leaves in rosette, not persistent, usually to 10 cm long, pinnately dissected with 1–5 pairs of broadly triangular lateral lobes, margins toothed; stem leaves smaller towards inflorescence, sagittate, hastate, becoming lanceolate and entire. Sepals 4–5 mm long; petals 6–10 mm long. Fruit spreading, linear-cylindric, straight, 4–10 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide; style 1–4 mm long, with swollen apex; pedicels spreading, 3–10 mm long. Flowers mostly spring–summer.