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§1 Plant
Brassica rapa L.
vernacular field mustard — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Brassica
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 297 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -13 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 125 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 192,800
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 297 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Carroll 05015
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Cross 05037
- Dallas 05039
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lincoln 05079
- Logan 05083
- Lonoke 05085
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Woodruff 05147
- Yell 05149
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Suffolk 36103
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Greene 42059
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 73 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dickenson 51051
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Grayson 51077
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Mathews 51115
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Rappahannock 51157
- Richmond 51159
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Westmoreland 51193
- Wythe 51197
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 20 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BRRA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7903057 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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