Meeker
Field
Brassicaceae
(Mustard
Family)
Characteristics
of the Brassicaceae
(Pesman, 1992):
Dicot. Flowers
regular with 4 sepals and
4 petals arranged in the form of a cross. 6 stamens, 4 long
and 2
short. Pistil 1. Flowers usually in many-flowered
racemes.
Leaves alternate. Herbaceous plants with acrid, peppery taste.
Erysimum
asperum (Western
wallflower) seen here with visiting bumblebee
Stanleya
pinnata (Prince's
plume)
Lesquerella acutifolia
(desert bladderpod)
Chorispora tenella (Cross flower)
Draba aurea