Plant Description:

• Introduced, weedy species growing up to 40 cm tall
• Found on disturbed sites, along roads, and near wetlands
• Basal leaves fall off early
• Small, white, crowded flowers at the top of the stem
• Pods are wide winged, flat and oval
• Earns its name from its foul smell. Milk becomes tainted if cattle eat this plant
• Seeds contain mustard oil
• Cattle have died from eating hay with a large quantity of stinkweed in it
• Found at Stops 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 12

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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