Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Hoskinstown-Captain's Flat Road, NSW

Flowers and fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, about 40km east of Northampton, WA

Fruiting bodies. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Hoskinstown-Captain's Flat Road, NSW

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Hay, NSW

Common Name

Jointed Charlock, Wild Radish

Family

Brassicaceae

Notes

Introduced annual or biennial forb to 1.5m tall.  Basal leaves flat, 15-30cm long, 50-100mm wide, bristly, deeply lobed and toothed.  Stem leaves alternating up the stems, smaller (to 7.5cm long) and often undivided.  Flowers white, yellow, mauve, pink, or purplish, usually with dark veins, with 4 petals, in open clusters at the tops of the stems.

Description and photo in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 330.

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

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