Brown Mustard🌼

A winter annual in the cabbage family. The seeds are the main source of mustard. The leaves are also eaten as a vegetable. Seiyō-karashina (naturalized after the Meiji era) forms vast yellow carpets on riverbanks in spring. Cultivated forms include takana, zha-cai, and nozawana.

Identification Points

• ✓Large pinnately lobed leaves forming a basal rosette
• ✓Bright yellow 4-petaled flowers in racemes
• ✓Long slender siliques

Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification

Phylogenetic Positionアブラナ科 →