Distribution: Occurring in scattered locations on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas.

Flowers: May-July

Origin: Introduced from Eurasia

Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, butterflies

Annual with soft hairs retrorsely aligned and appressed, the stems simple to freely branched, 1.5-8 dm. tall.

Leaves alternate, 3-20 cm. long, pinnatifid, the segments often again wavy lobed.

Flowers in a loose, elongate, bracteate raceme, the lowermost flowers sometimes in the axils of scarcely modified leaves; pedicles slender, ascending, under 1 cm. long; sepals 4, slightly saccate at the base; petals 4, pale yellow, 4-7 mm. long; stamens 6; style 1.5-3 mm. long.

Siliques 2-4.5 cm. long and 1.5 mm. thick, terete-quadrangular, the valves prominently keeled; seeds in 1 series.