Citation: DC., Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 2:632 (1821).

Synonymy: Sisymbrium tenuifolium L., Cent. 1 Pl. :18 (1755); Brassica tenuifolia (L.)Fries, Novit. Fl. Suec. 209 (1828).

Common name: Lincoln weed, sand rocket.

Description:
Perenial herb, erect, 20-80 cm tall, glabrous and glaucous; leaves cauline, lower leaves petiolate, variable, pinnatifid with linear lobes, or coarse-dentate, upper leaves reducing.

Sepals 4-6.5 mm long, dimorphic; petals 8-15 mm long, tapering to a claw, lemon-yellow; ovary on a gynophore.

Siliqua 2-6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, erect to spreading, on pedicels mostly 1.5-4 cm long; beak seedless, slender, c. 2 mm long, gynophore 1-3 mm long; seeds ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long.

	Diplotaxis tenuifolia
Image source: fig 213c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 323; Orchard (1946) J. Dept Agric. S. Aust. 50:180.

Distribution:  A weed of disturbed soils. A noxious weed in Vic. and S.Aust. S.Aust.: NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe and the Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: all months.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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