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Arugula flowers

Eruca sativa

Description:

Salad rocket grows 20–100 centimetres (8–39 in) in height. The leaves are deeply pinnately lobed with four to ten small lateral lobes and a large terminal lobe. The flowers are 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) in diameter, arranged in a corymb in typical Brassicaceae fashion; with creamy white petals veined with purple, and with yellow stamens; the sepals are shed soon after the flower opens. The fruit is a siliqua (pod) 12–35 millimetres (0.5–1.4 in) long with an apical beak, and containing several seeds (which are edible).

Habitat:

Garden

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joanbstanley
Spotted by
joanbstanley

Denton, Texas, USA

Spotted on Mar 26, 2013
Submitted on Mar 29, 2013

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