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Alliaria
Alliaria
Family:
Brassicaceae
Flora of North America
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Plants
with garlic smell when crushed; not scapose; glabrous or pubescent, trichomes simple.
Stems
erect [decumbent], often branched distally.
Leaves
basal and cauline; petiolate; basal (often withered by anthesis or fruiting), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins crenate, dentate, or sinuate; cauline shortly petiolate, blade margins dentate.
Racemes
elongated in fruit.
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate or ascending, stout (almost as broad as fruit [slender, narrower than fruit]).
Flowers:
sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally, (glabrous); petals oblanceolate, (longer than sepals), claw obscurely differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens.
Fruits
siliques, sessile, linear [oblong], torulose or subtorulose, terete, subterete, or 4-angled; valves each with prominent midvein and distinct marginal veins, glabrous [scabrous]; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules [4-] 6-22 per ovary; style obsolete or distinct (to 6 mm); stigma capitate, entire.
Seeds
plump, not winged, oblong; seed coat (longitudinally striate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent.
Alliaria alliaria
Images
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Alliaria petiolata