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  • COMMON NAME: Black Mustard
  • ARABIC: خردله
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Brassica nigra (L.) Koch
  • SYNONYMS: Sinapis nigra L.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://nyc.books.plantsofsuburbia.com/brassica-nigrablack-mustardbrassicaceae/ V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Food plant, feed.
Annual herb, 20-80 cm high, hispid or with sparse stiff hairs, sometimes glabrous. Stem erect, branched above. Lower leaves 10-30 cm, petiolate sparsely hispid on both sides, lyrate-pinnatisect, with hastate base, 1-2 pairs of lobes, acute; uppermost leaves more or less sessile, linear, entire. Inflorescences many branched, many flowered, dense. Flowers small. Sepals 4-5 mm long. Petals bright yellow 7.5-9 mm, long-clawed; limb obovate. Fruiting pedicels, 3-4 mm, erect, appressed. Siliqua appressed 10-19 mm, long linear, subtetragonous, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, with narrow beak; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Seeds small, 1-2 mm, dark-brown. Flowering from February to May.
Farms and waste places.
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