Sand Rocket

Scientific Name:

Diplotaxis tenuifolia

Other Common Names:

Perennial Wall-rocket, Sand Mustard, Lincoln Weed

Sand Rocket Plants
Photo: A J Brown

Status:

Native to Europe.

Plant Description:

Short-term perennial herb with hairless stems and leaves from 20-80 cm high. Leaves not in a basal rosette, toothed or with broad segments, fleshy, foetid smelling when crushed.

Flowers bright yellow, 4-petalled, each petal 8-15 mm long. Fruit a siliqua, 2-6 cm long on a stalk of almost equal length, linear and cylindrical in shape, tapering into the style and with a beak about 2 mm long. Each fruiting valve with a distinct dorsal vein and seeds in two distinct rows.

Habitat:

Occurs on coastal sand dunes along the western Victorian coastline. Also scattered in western Victoria, in waste ground, railways easements, roadsides, cultivated ground and pastures.

Comments:

A weedy species similar to other members of the Cress or Mustard Family.

Sand Rocket photos

Sand Rocket flowers Photo: A J Brown	Sand Rocket flowers Photo: A J Brown
Sand Rocket leaves Photo: A J Brown	Pod tip of Sand Rocket Photo: A J Brown
Sand Rocket pods Photo: A J Brown

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