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.

Identification difficulty
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.)

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

MAP KEY:

Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2025+ | 2020-2024 | pre-2020

UK Map

Additional images

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