Family: Brassicaceae
Scientific Name: Descurainia sophia
Common Name: Flixweed
| Description | A large growing plant with highly dissected leaves. |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Weeds |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Temperature | Will grow in the cold times as a winter annual. |
| Flowers | small, yellow with 4 sepals, 4 petals and 6 stamens located at the tips of the branches. |
| Fruit | seed pods are long and narrow, 20-40 seeds per pod, can produce up to 75,000 seeds per plant |
| Leaves | alternated, highly dissected and divided 2-3 times pinnately compound, covered with star shaped hairs giving them a grayish green color |
| Dimensions | can reach over 3 feet tall |
| Propagation | spreads by seeds |
| Native Site | First observed in Canada in 1821 and America in 1910 |
| Misc Facts | Can grow as an annual, biennial or winter annual. Sophia means skill or wisdom. |
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