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#4. Field Mustard

Brassica campestris

Family:

Mustard Family

Habitat:

Fields, roadsides

Characteristics:

1. Toothed, clasping leaves.

2. Small 4-petaled yellow flowers.

3. Relative or cabbage, broccoli, turnip, cauliflower, radish.

Uses:

1. Greens and flowers used in salads.

2. Seeds ground for commercial mustard.

3. Used as packs to draw fluids from infections.

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