This plant is of the Brassicaceae family, distinctive for its 4-merous flower. The lower leaves of the plant are pinnately parted, but still entire. This Raphanus was distinguished from R. Raphanistrum due to the petal color in this plant being purple and white.
Glabrous to slightly hairy habit. The stem is branched distally. Leaf is a basal blade of 2-60 cm, 1-20 cm wide, obovate, oblanceolate, lyre-shaped to pinnately divided. Lobes lateral from 1-12 and dentate. Flower has sepals 5.5-10 mm and petals 15-25 mm, 3.8 mm wide. Fruit is lanceolate to fusiform, occasionally ovoid with proximal segment 1-3.5 mm, and terminal segment 7-15 mm wide, corky, pedicel ascending and spreading .5-4 cm. Seed is 2.5-4 mm, spheric to ovoid. It occurs in disturbed fields and areas. Native to Mediterranean Europe. Flowers May-June.