Descurainia pinnata

Family: Brassicaceae
Common Name: western tansymustard
Symbol: DEPI
Description: Very common. Usually just a stick. Look for remnant pedicels on racemes. Annuals; sparsely to densely pubescent. Stems erect, unbranched or branched basally. Basal leaf blades 1- or 2-pinnate, ovate or oblong to oblanceolate in outline, margins entire or dentate. Cauline leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade smaller distally, distal lobes often narrower, densely pubescent. Racemes considerably elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels usually ascending to divaricate or horizontal. Fruits erect to ascending, usually clavate, rarely broadly linear, ovules glabrous.