Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Eruca sativa
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eruca eruca
COMMON NAME:
Arugula, Garden Rocket, Rocket-salad, Salad-rocket
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_erer10_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eruca_sativa
March
The earliest cultivation of subsp. sativa dates to ancient Romans & Greeks, per Flora of North America.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eruca_sativa_b
March
Petals cream or yellow (w dark veins), broadly obovate, claw differentiated, per Flora of North America.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eruca_sativa_c
March
Sepals (sometimes persistent), erect, oblong [linear], (connivent), per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
FAMILY
Brassicaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Eruca sativa
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eruca eruca
3621
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Cultivated as a salad green, persistent around gardens or occurring as a waif, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Mediterranean Europe
Waif(s)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish to dull yellow or dirty white
Flowers have pedicels.
4 sepals
4 petals
9-13 stamens
Bisexual
Flowers in racemes
FRUIT:
Silique
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