Biennial, to 75 cm high, erect, usually glabrous. Basal leaves with 5–10 pairs of lateral lobes, terminal lobe ovate to oblong; upper stem leaves with 2 or more pairs of lateral lobes. Sepals 2.5–4 mm long; petals 4.5–7 mm long. Fruit more or less erect, linear, 3–6 cm long (including style), 1.5–2 mm wide; style 1–2 mm long; pedicels spreading, 4–7 mm long, c. 1 mm diam.; seed not winged. Flower spring-summer.
VVP, GipP, CVU, NIS, HSF, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised SA, NSW, ACT, Tas. Native to Europe. Uncommon weed, grown as a salad vegetable and sometimes escaping from cultivation, but also naturalised away from gardens, including in native vegetation.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Brassicaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 399–459. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
