Dyer's Rocket

Foodplant / feeds on
larva of Baris picicornis feeds on Reseda lutea

Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Bruchela rufipes feeds within fruit of Reseda lutea

Plant / resting place / on
female of Melanthrips ficalbii may be found on live flower of Reseda lutea
Remarks: season: 5-8

Herbs annual or perennial, caespitose, 30-75 cm tall, glabrous. Stem branched, angular. Leaves 3-5-parted to pinnatifid, papery; lobes linear, margin repand. Flowers in terminal racemes, yellow to yellowish green; pedicel 3-5 mm. Sepals 6, linear, unequal, shorter than pedicel. Petals 6, rounded-clawed at base, lower 2 entire, lateral two 2- or 3-parted, upper 2 largest, 3-parted. Stamens 12-20. Carpels 3, connate. Capsule erect, cylindric or ovoid to subglobose, obtusely 3-angled, ca. 1 cm, apically 3-cleft. Seeds black, shiny, reniform, ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 12, 24, 48.

Mountain slopes, probably escaped from cultivation. Liaoning [native to SW Asia (E to Turkmenistan) and the Mediterranean region; widely naturalized elsewhere].

Reseda lutea - MHNT

Reseda lutea, the yellow mignonette or wild mignonette, is a species of fragrant herbaceous plant. Its leaves and flowers have been used to make a yellow dye called "weld" since the first millennium BC, although the related plant Reseda luteola was more widely used for that purpose.

A native of Eurasia and North Africa, the plant is present on other continents as an introduced species and a common weed. In Australia it is a noxious weed and pest of agricultural crops.