Taxon: Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton

See also subordinate taxa:

• Descurainia pinnata subsp. halictorum (1 accessions)

Common names:

• tansy mustard   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• western tansy mustard   (Source: F Florida ) – English
  
• moutarde tanaisie   (Source: F Canada ) – French
  

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Descurainia pinnata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nunavut, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire [n.], New York, Ohio, Vermont [n.], West Virginia [e.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [e.], Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida [n. & c.], Georgia [e. & s.], Kentucky [w.], Louisiana, North Carolina [e.], South Carolina [e.], Tennessee, Virginia [e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada [w.], Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Michoacan

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Mendoza, Neuquen, Rio Negro

References:

• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• CONABIO. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad en Mexico. Sistema Integrado de Información Taxonómica (SIIT) (on-line resource).
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Detling, L. 1939. A revision of the North American species of Descurainia. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 22:500–516.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Mitchell, R. S., ed. 1986. A checklist of New York state plants. New York State Mus. Bull. 458.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rhoads, A. F. & W. M. Klein, Jr. 1993. The vascular flora of Pennsylvannia. Annotated checklist and atlas.
• Rollins, R. C. 1993. The Cruciferae of continental North America.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• 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.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Descurainia pinnata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Descurainia pinnata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Descurainia pinnata.

Synonyms:

• Sophia halictorum Cockerell [≡ Descurainia pinnata subsp. halictorum]
  

Check other web resources for Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton:

• 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

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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