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  • COMMON NAME: Hedge Mustard
  • ARABIC: حويره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.
  • SYNONYMS: Erysimum officinale L.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • 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://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:289589-1/images
Annual, green or canescent herb, 20-50 cm high, with simple hairs retrosely hispid. Stem erect, branched above. Basal leaves 5-9 cm long, rosulate, petiolate, obovate, deeply pinnatisect with rounded terminal lobes, irregularly toothed; cauline leaves the same but, smaller with a narrow hastate terminal lobe. Flowers minute about 4 mm across. Sepals about 2.5 mm long, oblong. Petals 3-4 mm long, pale yellow. Fruiting pedicels 1-2 mm long, thickened, erect and appressed to the axis. Siliques 11-17 mm long, conical, broad at base, gradually tapering towards the apex; valves glabrous or hispid, 3-nerved. Seeds 8-10 in each locule, ellipsoid, reddish-brown. Flowering from February to April.
Fields, orchards and waste places.
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