Camelina alyssum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Brassicaceae.

[1] Camelina alyssum is an annual or biennial plant.

They commonly grow from 20 to 70 centimeters tall, but occasionally will reach one meter in height.

The stems may be unbranched or only branched at the ends and are smooth in texture or only have fine downy hairs at the base of the stems.

The leaves on the stems are variable in shape and may have an outline like a narrow spear head (blade lanceolate leaves), have a long rectangular shape (narrowly oblong leaves), or narrow like a blade grass with only a slight spear-point shape (linear-lanceolate).