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Brassicaceae — Mustard Family

316 species · Plants

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$Boechera retrofracta (Graham) A.Löve & D.Löve$

Boechera retrofracta (Graham) A.Löve & D.Löve

Boechera retrofracta is a threatened herb found in North America with pendent flowers and strongly reflexed siliques.

Borodinia laevigata (Muhl. ex Willd.) P.J.Alexander & Windham

Borodinia laevigata (smooth rockcress) is a biennial flowering mustard native to eastern North America, reclassified to Borodinia in 2013.

Brassica fruticulosa Cirillo

Brassica fruticulosa is a wild mustard species native to southern Europe and North Africa, naturalized in Australia and North America.

Brassica napus L.

Brassica napus L. (rapeseed) is a widely cultivated oilseed crop grown for vegetable oil, animal feed, and biodiesel.

Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J.Koch

Brassica nigra (black mustard) is an edible, historic mustard plant, native to Eurasia and North Africa, invasive in North America.

Brassica oleracea L.

Brassica oleracea (wild cabbage) is a coastal wild plant bred into many common cultivated vegetable crops.

Brassica rapa L.

Brassica rapa is a domesticated Eurasian brassica with many cultivated forms used for food, oil, agriculture, and education.

Brassica tournefortii Gouan

Brassica tournefortii is an invasive annual mustard herb native to North African and Middle Eastern deserts.

Braya humilis (C.A.Mey.) B.L.Rob.

Braya humilis is a perennial rosette-forming plant distributed across Asia and North America's arctic and alpine regions.

Bunias orientalis L.

Bunias orientalis is an edible wild plant classified as invasive in much of Middle Europe and parts of North America, once used as food in France.

Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook.

Cakile edentula, or American sea-rocket, is a succulent coastal annual or biennial plant with edible leaves, invasive outside its native North American East coast range.

Cakile maritima Scop.

Cakile maritima Scop. is a succulent edible annual sea rocket native to European, North African, and western Asian temperate coasts.

Calepina irregularis (Asso) Thell.

Calepina is a monotypic Brassicaceae flowering plant genus containing the annual species Calepina irregularis, native to a wide region from Europe to Central Asia.

Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC.

Camelina microcarpa is an annual mustard-family flowering plant, native to Eurasia, often an introduced weed of grain crops.

Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik.

Capsella bursa-pastoris is a common widespread ruderal flowering plant with food, feed, cosmetic, and traditional medicinal uses.

Cardamine amara L.

Large bitter-cress (Cardamine amara) is a perennial flowering mustard species that grows in damp places.

Cardamine angulata Hook.

Cardamine angulata (angled bittercress) is a North American wetland plant that ranges from California to Alaska.

Cardamine angustata O.E.Schulz

Cardamine angustata O.E.Schulz is a small herbaceous plant native to the eastern United States that grows in forest habitats.

Cardamine bulbifera (L.) Crantz

Cardamine bulbifera is a perennial Brassicaceae flowering plant that grows in damp places and reproduces via leaf-base bulbils.

Cardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

Cardamine bulbosa is an edible perennial mustard-family plant native to eastern North America that bears white flowers in late spring to early summer.

Cardamine californica (Nutt.) Greene

Cardamine californica is an herbaceous perennial with white to pink four-petaled flowers that has adaptive pollen protection behaviors.

Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) O.Schwarz

Cardamine concatenata is a North American mustards that is a host for an imperiled butterfly and has edible roots used as a horseradish substitute.

Cardamine dentata Schult.

Cardamine dentata Schult. entry with details on the related species Cardamine pratensis, a herbaceous edible perennial.

Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood

Cardamine diphylla is a mustard family mustard native to eastern North America with documented Indigenous uses.

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