Canary Islands Flora Garden

Brassicaceae

Descurainia millefolia (Jacq.) Webb & Berthel.

Canary Island reedbed

A small, woody shrub up to 1.5 m tall, highly branched, with fragile stems. Leaves arranged in rosettes at the tips of the woody branches, tripinnatisect. Lobes are lanceolate to linear, acute, and grayish-green. Flowers have four petals arranged in a cross shape, are yellow, and are arranged in terminal racemes. Fruits are siliques (longer than wide) very similar to legumes, but with two cavities. Endemic to the Canary Islands.