Taxon: Thlaspi arvense L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

IN°, KS°, MI*°, MN°, NE°, NV°, OH°, SD°, WA°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bastard cress   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• fanweed   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• field pennycress   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• Frenchweed   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Mithridate mustard   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• pennycress   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• stinkweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• wild garlic   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• xi ming   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Acker-Hellerkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• bolsa-do-campo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• penningört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide web document)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Thlaspi arvense from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia [n.]
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East [s.]
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [n.]; Italy; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland [n.]; Norway [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Sao Paulo
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Clark, G. 2006. Pennycress weed may turn into biofuel feedstock. [re. potential use as fuel substitute].
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. K. 1973. Conspectus der Thlaspi-Arten Europas, Afrikas und Vorderasiens. Feddes Repert. 84:451.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Oh, S.-Y. & J.-H. Pak. 2001. Distribution maps of vascular plants in Korea.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Press, J. R. et al. 2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Warwick, S. I. et al. 2002. The biology of Canadian weeds. 9. Thlaspi arvense L. (updated). Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 82:803–823.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thlaspi arvense.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thlaspi arvense.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thlaspi arvense.

Check other web resources for Thlaspi arvense L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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