TOWER MUSTARD
Turritis glabra
(Formerly: Arabis glabra)
Cabbage Family [Brassicaceae] 
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| 23rd May 2013, North Hants. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The plant with the glaucous-green auriculate (aka wrapped around the stem) and lanceolate leaves which are well-spaced up the round stem. At the top are some brighter-green but as-yet unopened flower buds. |
| 23rd May 2013, North Hants. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| The auriculate leaves which are at various angles up the thick glaucous stem. |
| 23rd May 2013, North Hants. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| A basal rosette of leaves centre bottom. The stem is hairy lower down but hairless higher up. with some narrower leaves up the stem which are only faintly and sparsely toothed or not at all. |
| 23rd May 2013, North Hants. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
| Another basal rosette of leaves, the edges of which are inside-out-crenate (The Kew book on Plant Glossary does not put a name to this shape of teeth!). A correspondent suggests 'scalloped'. But the leaves are variable, and some have very tiny pimples at the end and hardly any 'scallops' (those are almost 'entire'). |
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Not to be semantically confused with : Treacle Mustard (Erysimum cheiranthoides) nor with Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : Auriculate leaves which clasp the stem like a Walrus's flippers might do. Tower Mustard is a rather rare [RR] being found in dry open, waste spaces or sandy places and is decreasing. It is a biennial plant with stems up to 1m high which are hairy lower down and hairless above. It has numerous flowers. The fruits, when they appear, are 3 times longer than they are wide, flatter in one dimension, and with seeds in 2 rows beneath each valve. Photos of the opened flowers and of the fruits required, with attributions and acknowledgements to yourselves, if anyone has any please?
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Brassicaceae
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 Turritis (Tower Mustard) |
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Cabbage Family [Brassicaceae]
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