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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Reseda alba
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 449. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=White mignonette;mignonette-blanche;réséda blanc
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Resedaceae;Reseda;Reseda alba
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Resedaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Reseda]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Reseda alba]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 191
|treatment_page=page 192
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or biennial (perennial), 30–90 cm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, usually branched. <b>Leaves</b> (cauline shorter distally); blade ovate to ovate-oblong, pinnatisect (lobes 4–15 pairs, lanceolate-oblong), 3–15 × 3–5 cm, (base attenuate), margins entire or repand to raggedly toothed, surfaces glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> (dense) 20–40 cm; bracts persistent, lanceolate-linear, 3–3.5 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–8 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals persistent, 5(–6), not reflexed in fruit, lanceolate-linear, 2–2.5 mm; petals 5(–6), white, (3.5–)4–6 mm, subrounded-clawed, adaxial ones 3-lobed; stamens 10–14; filaments persistent, 2–3.5 mm, glabrous; intrastaminal nectary-discs papillose; anthers 1–2 mm; placenta entire. <b>Capsules</b> erect, 4-carpelled, cylindric to ovoid-oblong, 8–14 × 4–6 mm, apically 4-toothed, glabrous or ribs papillose. <b>Seeds</b> 1–1.3 mm, dull, finely papillose. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug(-Nov).
|habitat=Muddy shores, dunes, waste places, railroad ballasts, roadsides, basic soils
|elevation=0-800 m
|distribution=B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Kans.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Vt.;Wash.;s Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America;s Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Reseda alba
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Resedaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug(-Nov).
|habitat=Muddy shores, dunes, waste places, railroad ballasts, roadsides, basic soils
|elevation=0-800 m
|distribution=B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Kans.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Vt.;Wash.;s Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America;s Africa;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced;Illustrated
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|genus=Reseda
|species=Reseda alba
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