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  • COMMON NAME: Indian Hedge Mustard
  • ARABIC: حويره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sisymbrium orientale L.
  • SYNONYMS: S. columnae
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Gulley
  • 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:289595-1/images
Annual herb, up to 50 cm high, with soft, simple or retose hairs. Stems erect, branched. Basal leaves 3-8 cm or more, rosulate, petiolate, pinnatisect to lyrate, terminal lobe triangular-oblong or hastate. Flowers 4-6 mm across. Sepals 4-5 mm long. Petals 7-9 mm long, yellow. Fruiting pedicels 3-6 mm long, thick, erect. Siliques 4-9 cm long, erect or ascending, linear, pilose when young, valves 3-nerved. Seeds 30-40 in each locule, about 1 mm long, oblong, orange brown. Flowering from February to April.
Gardens, fields and roadsides.
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