Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, SW of Hillston, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruiting bodies. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruiting plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Ward's Weed

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 40cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, to about 12cm long, bristly, with narrow flat lobes which are again lobed, tips blunt.  Flowers yellow to whitish with purple veins, with 4 petals, in long racemes at the tops of the stems.

Description and photo of flowers and fruiting bodies in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 321

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Carrichtera~annua

Weeds of Australia Biosecurity Queensland Edition description:  http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Carrichtera_annua.htm#Habit