Perennial wall-rocket
A yellow-flowered perennial rocket of roadsides and sandy ground, blooming from May to October and bridging the late-summer dearth.
- Nectar
- Medium
- Pollen
- Medium
- Flowering
- JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
- Height
- 0,3-0,8 m
- Life cycle
- Perennial
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Perennial wall-rocket is a perennial member of the cabbage family of Mediterranean origin, with tough stems and a pungent smell. Its four-petalled, pale yellow flowers have open nectar; honey bees, wild bees and flies visit regularly. Although individual plants contribute little, it becomes a notable source where it forms dense stands on sandy waste ground, along railways and roadsides.
Flowering
It flowers without interruption from May to October, even in dry summers. Its value rises in late summer and early autumn, when sources other than sunflower and cotton become scarce.
Honey and pollen
It gives no monofloral honey. As is typical of the cabbage family, the honeys it contributes to tend to crystallise quickly.
Note for the beekeeper
It is also grown commercially as salad rocket; for leaf harvest most fields are not left to flower, but seed production areas are a good late-summer source for bees. It tolerates dry, poor soils.