Name That Bloom

It's Arugula. Flowering in Brooklyn. Another benefit of letting some of your vegetables and herbs go to flower is that you can often observe a family resemblance. Arugula and Radishes are related and you can see that in their flowers. Below, a flowering Daikon Radish from the community garden pumpkin patch in early October of last year. Both the Arugula and the Radish are in the Brassicaceae family, which contains a lot of food crop plants that are producing this time of year, like Broccoli and Cabbage, to name just a few.