I just got home and saw those pictures of the 4-petaled mustard plants in the San Francisco bay area. Those pictures are much more lush than mine - but I'll try to snap a closeup of the flower in the morning and compare.
I'll report back what I find in comparison to the net on the "wild mustard".
BTW, if it is wild mustard, might I be able to make mustard out of it? (I'll check - but I figured I'd ask also.)
Have you ever eaten it cooked? My grandma used to cook it for us all the time and taught me how. You pull the leaves off the plant .. medium to smaller leaves are more tender, and then you boil them like you would spinach leaves 'til they are tender. After that you drain the boiled leaves and squeeze all the water out of the leaves you can get to come out of them. Next you add some oil to a frying pan, and break up the boiled leaves into the hot grease. Break 2 or 3 fresh eggs over the poke in the hot grease and stir fry the eggs with the poke. Add a bit of salt to taste while it's cooking. MMMMMMMmmm!!
I didn't know what the seeds looked like, but I could easily see the green central florets, unveined yellow flower petals and what looks like six stamens (four tall, and two short) surrounding the one pistil as men surround a pretty lady at a bar:
Oh oh .... mustard weeds may be protected ... oh my God!
BTW, I hope I'm allowed to "take" *this* California animal I just caught in the house moments ago, while reaching for a level to hang a mirror for the wife:
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I need better spider-catching tools than this plastic container:
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Now she is destined for transportation into my ravine, along with all the other spiders, snakes, and mustard-gas flowers:
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