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Bayer Code : ssyor
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Sisymbrium columnae Jacq.; inclu. Sisymbrium costen Fouc. & Rouy.
Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: eastern rocket
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Orientalische Rauke ; ES : erismo oriental ; FR : sisymbre d' orient ; IT : erba cornacchia ; PT : rinchao ; EN : eastern rocket ;
Biological type: Biennial
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- Cotyledons elongate, spoon-shaped.
- Leaves entire, ovate to deltoid, irregularly dentate.
- Height: 20-60 cm. Plant hairy, greyish.
- Stem erect, branched or simple.
- Leaves stalked, runcinate, pinnate, the middle with a hastate terminal lobe. Upper leaves lanceolate, entire.
- Flowers yellowish, small, sepals erect, petals exceeding the calyx.
- Fruiting raceme long, lax on very short (2-7 mm) and very thick stalks; siliqua few, very long (5cm), opened, distant, stiff; valves 3-veined ; seeds relatively big, brown, smooth, on a single row.
- Biological type: biennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Present