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§1 Plant

Thlaspi alliaceum L.

vernacular roadside pennycress — species · Brassicaceae


USDA
THAL2
GBIF
10944522 syn.
Rank
species
roadside pennycress (Thlaspi alliaceum)
Platephotograph · Emily FeistCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 163 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 163 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 163 counties across 11 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 3 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I
Indiana view state ↗ 8 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 116 I
Maryland view state ↗ 11 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 I
Virginia view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/THAL2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/10944522 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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