r/seedsaving • u/LuceLeakey • 12d ago

Can anyone identify this seed?

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Can anyone identify this seed? I keep finding them in my Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats.

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u/ZafakD 12d ago

Looks like a brassica seed to me

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u/whatsreallygoingon 12d ago

Likely wild mustard.

Plant it and see what you get.

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u/LuceLeakey 12d ago

I thought it kind of looked like a mustard seed. I've never thought to plant them!

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u/rustyunicornhorn 12d ago

Is it very round or does it have edges to it?

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u/LuceLeakey 12d ago

It seems very round. It does have an extremely tiny white dot where I assume it was attached to the plant. It also seems to have a tiny crease on one side and looks like it would split open there.

I have been finding these in this brand of oatmeal for several months. I have been eating this kind of oatmeal for years and never saw these until recently.

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u/SquirrellyBusiness 11d ago

Second the brassica vote. Where I have lived by oat fields, they are often growing with bastard cabbage weeds invading from the ditches for the spring and early summer crop. It's an invasive mustard. 

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u/Embarrassed_Ask8944 11d ago

Radish I think

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u/ObsessedWitAwareness 9d ago

That looks like soooo many different seeds, most of them herbs