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Forb
Winter annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in GA & SC (uncommon in NC)

Look for it open sandy areas, esp roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)

FRUIT:
Spring
Silique

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p118

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Descurainia pinnata var. pinnata   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Descurainia pinnata ssp. pinnata   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 088-16-002:
Descurainia pinnata   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sophia pinnata