Noxious Weeds Profile - Yellow Rocket

1. Names
2. Photos
3. Current Status
4. Poisonous/Cautions
5. Distribution
6. Growth Habit
7. Method of Propagation
8. Control
9. Other Comments
10. Related Links

Current Status

• Ontario Weeds Act - noxious
• Other provinces - noxious in Quebec
• Canadian Federal Seeds Act - Class 2
• U.S. Federal Noxious Weed - no
• U.S. Noxious State Reg - 4 states (including Mich, Minn)

Poisonous/Cautions

• Pub 505 - none
• NE Weeds - none
• Canadian Poison Plant - This plant poisoned a horse in one unusual case in which the animal ate large quantities of the plant from a wagon that was hauling the weed from a field (Hansen 1930). The symptoms suggested gluocosinolate poisoning, as in Brassica spp.
• Cornell Poison Plant - not listed

Distribution

• Common throughout most of Ontario, found in pastures, meadows, waste areas, roadsides. Early emerging weed common on disturbed soils.

Growth Habit

• Biennial

Method of Propagation

• •Seeds

Control

• •Top growth control only with 2,4-D. Not listed on Banvel or Roundup labels. Spray at rosette stage. Mow as early as flowers appear and mow low enough to cut lowest flowering stalks. Cultivation in late summer and fall will destroy most rosettes.

Other Comments

• Yellow rocket can be a host for early spring pests of brassica crops such as cabbage and canola.
  

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Related Links

• Ontario Weed Gallery: Yellow Rocket
• Ontario Vegetation Management Association