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Photographer: Robert Bierman
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Family Brassicaceae
Berteroa incana (L.) DC.
hoary false madwort, hoary-alyssum
Berteroa: for Carlo Guiseppe Bertero, Piedmontese botanist
incana: gray
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual to perennial, 10"-28" tall forb, stiff, usually with upper branches; stems leafy |
| Flower: | white to yellow, 4-parted, 1/8" wide, petals deeply 2-lobed at the top; inflorescence a dense, rounded cluster; blooms May-Sept. |
| Fruit: | fat, elliptical pods;  |
| Leaf: | toothless |
| Habitat: | disturbed sites, usually in sun on sandy soil |
| (Glossary) |
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