Common name:
Wild cabbage
Family:
Scientific name:
Brassica oleracea
Main flower color:
Range:
Most of England and Wales, especially the southwest, where it is native. Naturalised in some areas
Height:
Up to 120 cm
Habitat:
Coastlines, especially chalk cliffs, and grassy places inland
Flowers:
Up to 3 cm across, larger than other UK crucifers; four broad, clawed yellow petals and four narrow, spreading, greenish-yellow sepals. Attached by slender, hairless pedicels, two or more times as long as the flowers. The inflorescence is an open, elongated cluster; all flowers well-spaced from each other
Fruit:
Narrow, hairless, beaked, cylindrical pods, up to 10 cm long, spreading or ascending
Leaves:
Greyish-green, fleshy, lobed around the base, lined by broad, rounded teeth. Upper stem leaves are clasping
Season:
April to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
