Index / Search / Armoracia rusticana
§1 Plant
Armoracia rusticana G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.
vernacular horseradish — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Armoracia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 138 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 138 counties across 14 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARRU4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3041022 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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