Tropidocarpum gracile

Dobie pod

Family: Brassicaceae · Type: annual · Native

Dobie pod is a California native annual found in southern North Coast Ranges, North Coast Interior Ranges, California Ranges, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehama, Central Valley, Central Western, southwestern California, and western Mojave Desert in grassy banks, open fields, roadsides, and pastures at elevations below 1,450 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces bright yellow flowers occasionally tinged with purple, 3 to 6 millimeters long. Growing with slender stems 10 to 45 centimeters tall, it spreads across open ground with delicate branching. Its leaves have complex blade structures with 3 to 8 lateral lobes that can be entire or deeply dentate, reaching 2.5 to 10 centimeters in length. The mature plant develops linear silique fruits 3 to 6 centimeters long, containing 30 to 70 small oblong seeds.

Habitat: Common. Grassy banks, open fields, roadsides, pastures

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 1450 m

Bioregions: s NCoRO, NCoRI, CaRF, SNF, Teh, GV, CW, SW, w DMoj

California counties: Kern, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Lake, Madera, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Placer, Riverside, San Benito, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Sutter, Sacramento, Glenn, Inyo, Merced, Santa Barbara, Tulare, Mariposa, San Mateo, Tehama, Ventura, Yolo, Solano, Stanislaus, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Mendocino, Calaveras, Butte, Kings, Tuolumne, Amador, Nevada, Imperial, Marin, Sonoma, El Dorado, Alpine

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.