General: Biennial or short-lived perennial herb from a simple stem-base; stems simple or branched above, 0.3-1.2 m tall, densely stiff-hairy at base, usually glabrous above.
Leaves: Basal leaves oblanceolate, 3-14 cm long; stem leaves strongly overlapping, narrowly egg-shaped to lanceolate, 5-15 cm long, to 4 cm wide, unstalked and ear-like at the bases.
Flowers: Many-flowered racemes; petals 5-6 mm long, cream sepals about 3 mm long, glabrous, not bulging at one side on the base.
Fruits: siliques, erect, appressed to axis of the inflorescence, straight, glabrous, 6-10 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide; seeds 1-1.5 mm wide, with very narrow wings.
Notes: This taxon occurs in many native habitats but also readily colonizes roadsides and waste places. Its native status is therefore uncertain (Rollins 1993).
Moist to dry streambanks, meadows, open forests, rock outcrops, roadsides and waste places in the lowland and montane zones; common throughout BC; E to PQ and S to GA and N CA; native status uncertain, also occurs in Eurasia.
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)
