Descurainia sophia

Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2): 192 1892. (Syn: Arabis sophia (L.) Bernh.; Crucifera sophia (L.) E.H.L.Krause; Descurainia sophia var. brachycarpa O.E. Schulz; Descurainia sophia var. macrophylla (Barnéoud) Prantl; Descurainia sophia var. sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl; Discurea sophia (L.) Schur; Hesperis sophia (L.) Kuntze; Phryne sophia (L.) Bubani; Sisymbrium parviflorum Lam.; Sisymbrium persicum Spreng.; Sisymbrium sophia L.; Sisymbrium sophia var. brachycarpum Boiss.; Sisymbrium tripinnatum DC.; Sophia chirurgorum Garsault [Invalid]; Sophia lobelii Rupr.; Sophia multifida Gilib. (Unresolved); Sophia parviflora (Lam.) Standl.; Sophia sophia (L.) Britton [Invalid]; Sophia vulgaris Fourr.);

Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl from Kashmir: Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl, H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2):192. 1891

Syn: Sisymbrium sophia L.

Common names: flixweed, herb-Sophia, tansy mustard

Hindi: Khubkallana

A very distinctive annual herb reaching 1 m tall with leaves 2-3 pinnatisect into linear segments; lower leaves stalked, upper sessile; flowers yellow, hardly 2-3 mm across, in up to 30 cm long racemes (in fruit) with usually more than 50 flowers; pedicel filiform, up to 1.5 cm in fruit; sepals about 2 mm long, petals slightly longer; fruit narrowly linear, up to 3 cm long, obscurely torulose.

Very common in Kashmir valley, found on road sides and wastelands. Photographed from Badam Vari, Srinagar, Kashmir

Seeds are given in desentery and calculus complaints, some times also as substitute for mustard and plant preparations used to eradicate worms (according to Flora of China).

Looks uncannily similar to mustard plant fruiting??

Brassicaceae Week: Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl from Kashmir: Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl, H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2):192. 1891

Syn: Sisymbrium sophia L.

Common names: flixweed, herb-Sophia, tansy mustard

Hindi: Khubkallana

Very common in Kashmir valley, found on road sides and wastelands. Photographed from Badam Vari, Srinagar, Kashmir

Seeds are given in desentery and calculus complaints, some times also as substitute for mustard and plant preparations used to eradicate worms (according to Flora of China).

I have one species from Spiti valley which looks close to this. Will share separately.