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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa   FAMILY Brassicaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Eruca sativa

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Eruca eruca

 

COMMON NAME:
Arugula, Garden Rocket, Rocket-salad, Salad-rocket


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image of Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa, Arugula, Garden Rocket, Rocket-salad, Salad-rocket

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_erer10_001_lvd

        

image of Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa, Arugula, Garden Rocket, Rocket-salad, Salad-rocket

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_eruca_sativa

March        

The earliest cultivation of subsp. sativa dates to ancient Romans & Greeks, per Flora of North America.

image of Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa, Arugula, Garden Rocket, Rocket-salad, Salad-rocket

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_eruca_sativa_b

March        

Petals cream or yellow (w dark veins), broadly obovate, claw differentiated, per Flora of North America.

image of Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa, Arugula, Garden Rocket, Rocket-salad, Salad-rocket

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_eruca_sativa_c

March        

Sepals (sometimes persistent), erect, oblong [linear], (connivent), per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Eruca sativa

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eruca eruca

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3621

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Cultivated as a salad green, persistent around gardens or occurring as a waif, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Waif(s)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish to dull yellow or dirty white
Flowers have pedicels.
4 sepals
4 petals
9-13 stamens
Bisexual

Flowers in racemes

FRUIT:
Silique

 

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