Intro: Erect annual of fields and other disturbed areas. Native of Europe.

Stems: Stems ribbed and sometimes winged, branched, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate (a rosette of basal leaves may form first), mostly sessile with clasping lobes at the base, lance-shaped to narrowly oval, to 4 in. long, wavy-margined to blunt-toothed, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers on stalks in terminal racemes, which elongate during blooming (flowers at top open first); white; less than 1/4 in. wide; consisting of 4 tiny spoon-shaped and round-tipped petals, 4 green sepals, 6 anthers and a green ovary.

Fruits: Fruit a green, round to oval, minutely winged pod.

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Height: 8-30 in.

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description: Erect annual of fields and other disturbed areas. Native of Europe.

stems: Stems ribbed and sometimes winged, branched, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate (a rosette of basal leaves may form first), mostly sessile with clasping lobes at the base, lance-shaped to narrowly oval, to 4 in. long, wavy-margined to blunt-toothed, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers on stalks in terminal racemes, which elongate during blooming (flowers at top open first); white; less than 1/4 in. wide; consisting of 4 tiny spoon-shaped and round-tipped petals, 4 green sepals, 6 anthers and a green ovary.

fruits: Fruit a green, round to oval, minutely winged pod.

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