Taxon: Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl
Genus: Descurainia
Family: Brassicaceae (alt. Cruciferae).
Nomen number: 13568
Place of publication: H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2):192. 1891
Name verified on: 07-Feb-1990 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-May-2006
No species priority site assigned.
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- Food additives: flavoring (fide Cornucopia)
- Human food: vegetable; potential as oil/fat (sprouted seeds & leaves fide Cornucopia; oil fide Chin J Oil Crop Sci 20:28-32. 1998)
- Weed: also potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA)
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Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt [n.]; Morocco
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East Mongolia: Mongolia China: China
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.]; Nepal; Pakistan
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom - England [e.] Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym] Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized: - widely naturalized in temperate regions
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Detl.
1939. Amer. Midl. Naturalist
22:487–488.
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
- Hegi, G. et al.
Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa. ed. 1:1906-1931; ed. 2:1936-68; ed. 3:1966- (IllF MEur)
- Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles.
1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2. (F Ariz)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
[lists as D. sophia (L.) Schur].
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Luo, P. et al.
1998. Descurainia sophia, an oil-bearing plant species for special purposes.
Chin. J. Oil Crop Sci.
20:28–32.
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck.
1959. A California flora. (F CalifMunz)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Scoggan, H. J.
1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
- Steyermark, J. A.
1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
- Täckholm, V.
1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2. (SF Egypt)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- 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.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- Seed: 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
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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.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
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