Sisymbrium maximowiczii Palibin, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 17(1): 28. 1899.

Plants (10-)20-50(-75) cm tall, pubescent throughout with stalked stellate trichomes. Stems erect, simple at base, branched above. Basal leaves not seen. Cauline leaves oblong-obovate or oblanceolate or rarely spatulate, (7-)12-40(-50) cm × (2-)4-10(-16) mm, stellate, gradually reduced in size upward, cuneate to petiolelike base to 3 mm, margin entire, apex rounded or obtuse. Fruiting pedicels slender, subappressed to rachis, (3-)4-7(-8.5) mm. Sepals narrowly oblong, stellate, 1.5-2(-2.5) × 0.5-0.8 mm. Petals white or pale pink, oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, (2.5-)3-4 × 1-1.5 mm, apex rounded. Filaments 2-3 mm, median pairs strongly broadened basally and to 1 mm wide; anthers 0.5-0.8 mm. Fruit linear, torulose, 0.8-1.4(-1.8) × 0.7-1 mm, densely stellate; style slender, (1-)1.5-2(-2.5) mm. Seeds dark brown, oblong, ca. 1 × 0.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Oct, fr. Jul-Oct.

After publication of the family treatment for the Flora of China, this was treated as Stevenia maximowiczii (Palib.) D. German & Al-Shehbaz (Nordic J. Bot. 28: 649. 2010).

Rocky places, forests, mountain slopes; 300-900 m. Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].