Carrichtera annua, Wards Weed, Cress Rocket

Carrichtera annua (L.) DC.
Family:  Brassicaceae

Common name: Wards Weed, Cress Rocket
Hebrew: כפיות שעירות
Arabic: ام قرين

Erect herb 5–40 cm high with reflexed bristly hairs, branching basally, decumbent.
Leaves 2–3-pinnatisect, the lobes linear to obtuse; petiolate.
Raceme 10–30 mm long. Sepals c. 4 mm long. Petals 8–9 mm long, yellow, purple-veined. Silicula 6–7 mm long, pendent on pedicel 2–3 mm long; beak 3–4 mm long, c. 3 mm wide, spoon-like; valves c. 3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, 3-veined; seeds 3 or 4 per loculus.

11 Published articles of Carrichtera annua
1.    Population dynamics of the invasive, annual species, Carrichtera annua, in Australia
Cooke, J.; Ash, J. E.; Groves, R. H. - RANGELAND JOURNAL  Volume: 34   Issue: 4   Pages: 375-387   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/RJ12027   Published: 2012
2.    Isolation and identification of a new flavonoid glycoside from Carrichtera annua L. seeds.
Shahat, Abdelaaty A; Abdelshafeek, Khaled A; Husseiny, Husseiny A - Pharmacognosy research  Volume: 3   Issue: 3   Pages: 151-4   Published: 2011-Jul
3.    The distribution of Carrichtera annua in Australia: introduction, spread and probable limits
Cooke, Julia; Groves, R. H.; Ash, Julian - RANGELAND JOURNAL  Volume: 33   Issue: 1   Pages: 23-35   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/RJ10001   Published: 2011
4.    Cyclic dormancy, temperature and water availability control germination of Carrichtera annua, an invasive species in chenopod shrublands
Facelli, Jose M.; Chesson, Peter - AUSTRAL ECOLOGY  Volume: 33   Issue: 3   Pages: 324-328   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01821.x   Published: MAY 2008
5.    Competition and resource availability in an annual plant community dominated by an invasive species, Carrichtera annua (L. Aschers.), in South Australia
Harris, MR; Facelli, JM - PLANT ECOLOGY  Volume: 167   Issue: 1   Pages: 19-29   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023981500007   Published: JUL 2003
6.    The application of liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation in the structural characterization of acylated flavonol O-glycosides from the seeds of Carrichtera annua
Cuyckens, F; Shahat, AA; Van den Heuvel, H; et al. - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY  Volume: 9   Issue: 4   Pages: 409-420   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1255/ejms.559   Published: 2003
7.    Germination of Carrichtera annua (Brassicaceae) seeds on soil samples collected along a rainfall gradient in the Negev Desert of Israel
Shem-Tov, S; Zaady, E; Gutterman, Y - ISRAEL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES  Volume: 50   Issue: 2   Pages: 113-118   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1092/G4F1-51Q2-4RBY-RKTW   Published: 2002
8.    A new acylated flavonol triglycoside from Carrichtera annua
Abdel-Shafeek, KA; El-Messiry, MM; Shahat, AA; et al. - JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS  Volume: 63   Issue: 6   Pages: 845-847   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/np990579i   Published: JUN 2000
9.    Mucilaginous seed coat structure of Carrichtera annua and Anastatica hierochuntica from the Negev Desert highlands of Israel, and its adhesion to the soil crust
Gutterman, Y; ShemTov, S - JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS  Volume: 35   Issue: 4   Pages: 695-705   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jare.1996.0192   Published: APR 1997
10.    The germination of mucilaginous seeds of Plantago coronopus, Reboudia pinnata, and Carrichtera annua on cyanobacterial soil crust from the Negev Desert
Zaady, E; Gutterman, Y; Boeken, B - PLANT AND SOIL  Volume: 190   Issue: 2   Pages: 247-252   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004269031844   Published: MAR 1997
11.    THE ACCELERATED GERMINATION OF CARRICHTERA-ANNUA SEEDS AND THE STIMULATING AND INHIBITING EFFECTS PRODUCED BY THE MUCILAGE AT SUPRA-OPTIMAL TEMPERATURES
GATTILMAN, G - JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS  Volume: 30   Issue: 3   Pages: 327-338   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-1963(05)80007-2   Published: JUL 1995