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rocket, any of the 90 species of the genus Sisymbrium, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), weedy plants with yellow flowers that are common in waste areas and fields of the Northern Hemisphere and mountains in the Southern Hemisphere. Rockets have long, thin seedpods and usually coarse, deeply cut, dandelion-like leaves. Eastern rocket (S. orientale), a European annual 30 to 60 cm (1 to 2 feet) tall, has long pods and clusters of small flowers at the stem tip. Hedge mustard (S. officinale), a Eurasian species with pods close to the stem, is naturalized in North America. S. altissimum is also naturalized in North America; it is a tumbleweed. The name rocket is also given to Barbarea vulgaris (see winter cress).
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