General: Annual or biennial herb from a taproot; stems simple or branched, leafy, 0.2-1.0 m tall, sparsely hairy with 2-pronged hairs.
Leaves: Basal leaves lacking; stem leaves linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire or minutely toothed, 2-8 cm long, 2-18 mm wide, finely hairy with 3-pronged hairs.
Flowers: Racemes bractless; flower stalks 4-15 mm long, spreading or spreading-ascending; petals pale yellow, 3.5-5 mm long; sepals yellowish or greenish, 2-3 mm long.
Fruits: Siliques, ascending to erect, 1.5-2 (3) cm long, about 1 mm wide, round in cross section, finely appressed-hairy; beaks 0.5-1 mm long; seeds 1-1.2 mm long, wingless.
Moist to mesic roadsides, fields and waste places in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; frequent throughout BC except the Queen Charlotte Islands and adjacent coast; circumboreal, N to AK, YT and NT, E to NF and S to NC, MI, UT and CA; Eurasia, native status uncertain.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)