Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 666 (1753).

Synonymy: B. campestris L. subsp. napus (L.)Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1:156 (1872).

Common name: Rape, swede, coleseed, rutabaga.

Description:
Herb, annual or biennial, erect, to 1.5 m, tap root strong or tuberous; lower leaves glaucous, scarcely fleshy, lyrate, petiolate, bristled; upper leaves reducing to sessile and stem-clasping.

Inflorescence a convex corymb; sepals half-spreading, 5-7 mm long; petals 11-14 mm long, pale-yellow.

Siliqua obliquely erect, 45-100 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide; beak narrower than the stigma, 5-30 mm long; seeds globular, 1.5-2.5 mm wide.

	Brassica napus
Image source: fig 209e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Curtis (1975) Stud. Fl. Tas. edn 2, 1:fig. 11.

Distribution:  Occasional escape from cultivation. S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   Tas. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

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

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