Brassica L.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Brassicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Brassica L.

• Description

  Description - Erect branching herbs, with pinnatifid basal leaves, and showy yellow flowers in elongated racemes. Siliques elongated, sessile, terete or 4-sided, tipped with an indehiscent conic, usually 1-seeded beak. Valves convex, 1-3- nerved. Seeds in 1 row in each cell, oblong, marginless; cotyledons conduplicate. [Latin name of the cabbage.] About 80 species, natives of Europe, Asia and northern Africa. Type species: Brassica oleracea L.