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    Black mustard is an invasive yellow-flowered plant species found throughout California that grows in dry, disturbed areas. It tends to grow alongside roads and pathways where gophers make their burrows. All parts of the black mustard plant are edible for small mammals and insects. The seeds are used for cooking and seasoning globally, while the leaves provide vitamins, calcium, and potassium.

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    Black mustard is an invasive yellow-flowered plant species found throughout California that grows in dry, disturbed areas. It tends to grow alongside roads and pathways where gophers make their burrows. All parts of the black mustard plant are edible for small mammals and insects. The seeds are used for cooking and seasoning globally, while the leaves provide vitamins, calcium, and potassium.

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    Black mustard is an invasive yellow-flowered plant species found throughout California that grows in dry, disturbed areas. It tends to grow alongside roads and pathways where gophers make their burrows. All parts of the black mustard plant are edible for small mammals and insects. The seeds are used for cooking and seasoning globally, while the leaves provide vitamins, calcium, and potassium.

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    Black Mustard Characteristics

    Brassica Nigra Appearance: Yellow flowers; four petals in


    cruciform shape; beak-shaped seed pods
    Size: Flowers around 1” in diameter; plant can
    Black Mustard is a common, invasive
    grow up to 8’ tall
    species found all along hills across
    Location: Alongside CFTA driveway and gravel
    California. It tends to grow in dry,
    disturbed areas like fields where pathway leading to the CFTA
    gophers make their tunnel homes. All Season: Flowers throughout the warmer seasons
    parts of the mustard plant are edible and depending on when it was seeded
    many small mammals and insects will
    eat the plant. Mustard seeds are used o Native
    for spicing and cooking across the world
    and the leaves are rich in vitamins, Calcium and Potassium.

    Fun Facts Sources


    If treated and manipulated correctly mustard can A Field Guide to Wildflowers
    be made into hazardous mustard gas. Wild Plants of the Sierra Nevada
    USDA Plants
    Pictures: Molly O’Brien ’18 and Megan
    Leich

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