Gold-of-pleasure
Gold-of-pleasure - Camelina sativa
Description
A yellow-flowered crucifer with rounded seed-pods on long pedicels and simple leaves that clasp the stem. Glabrous or only slightly hairy.
Similar Species
Other Camelina species; C. microcarpa is hairy.
Recording advice
Good photographs in the field or from specimen, showing details of flowers, fruits, leaves.
Habitat
Field margins, waste ground
UK Status
Casual; often sown in gamebird seed-mixes along field margins.
VC55 Status
Occasonal on crop margins sown with birdseed mixes and on set-aside land, and sometimes persists. (G Hall, pers. comm.)
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