Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 449 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Cut-leaved mignonette.

Description:
Perennial, sprawling to erect, branching from the base, to 80 cm high; stems numerous; leaves glabrous to papillose-scabrous; basal leaves usually entire, more or less oblanceolate-petiolate; upper 3-7-lobed, linear-oblanceolate, mucronate.

Sepals 6, deciduous, linear, more or less scabrous; petals 6, pale-yellow; superior petal deeply 3-lobed, central lobe linear, outer lobes broadly falcate, margins sometimes undulate; other petals smaller, variously incised; stamens 14-18, filaments deciduous.

Capsule contracted below summit, 3 small apical teeth, ribs papillose; seeds 1.75-2 mm long, smooth, shiny.

	Reseda lutea
Image source: fig 224b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1950) Drawings Brit. Pl. 4:t. 1.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Eurasia; America. Native in the Mediterranean to Asia Minor (to Turkmenistan). Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Feb.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available