Index / Search / Descurainia pinnata ssp. brachycarpa

§1 Plant

Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton ssp. brachycarpa (Richardson) Detling

vernacular western tansymustard — subspecies · Brassicaceae


USDA
DEPIB
GBIF
3044160
Rank
subspecies
western tansymustard (Descurainia pinnata ssp. brachycarpa)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Brassicaceae Burnett
Genus
Descurainia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 655 counties across 29 states/territories
Legend Native · 655 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 655 counties across 29 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 23 N
Colorado view state ↗ 11 N
Illinois view state ↗ 87 N
Indiana view state ↗ 32 N
Iowa view state ↗ 22 N
Kansas view state ↗ 97 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 24 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 13 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 31 N
Missouri view state ↗ 86 N
Montana view state ↗ 2 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 58 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N
New York view state ↗ 6 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 23 N
Ohio view state ↗ 22 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 41 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 20 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 11 N
Texas view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 28 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/DEPIB ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3044160 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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