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See Betty's comments| Insufficient or inconclusive evidence | 4 Jan 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Sisymbrium officinale | 7 Dec 2018 | AlexKirk |
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BettyDonWood
wrote:
8 Dec 2018
There are six genera of weedy plants in the cabbage family that look somewhat like this in the 2017 ACT Plant Census. The flowers all look the same in a photo. Excellent photos of basal and stem leaves and stems can sometimes give an ID. Poaitive identification can only be made with pods, and details of seeds and how they are arranged within the pods. The critical diagnostic for Sisymbrium officinale is that the pods are pressed tightly to the stems.
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/sisymbrium_officinale.htm
https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/sisymbrium_officinale.htm
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- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
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