Brassicaceae

Mustard Family

By: George Rogers

Also known as the Cruciferae, this is the Mustard Family.  Usually herbaceous, these oil-bearing plants tend to have irregularly shaped alternate leaves.  The flowers characteristically have four petals and six stamens.

Plants listed in the manual include:

Brassica juncea

Cardamine pensylvanica

Cleome rutidosperma

Lepidium didymum

Lepidium virginicum

Lobularia maritima