Taxon: Rapistrum rugosum (L.) All.

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:

TX°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• ball-turnip   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bastard-cabbage   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• common giant mustard   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• giant mustard   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rapistrum-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• turnipweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• wild turnip   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• gewöhnlicher runzliger Rapsdotter   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of rape   (fide Euphytica 158:213. 2007, reporting a successful cross when B. napus was the female parent)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Rapistrum rugosum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Montenegro; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Netherlands; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part
  Southeastern Europe: Romania; Serbia
  Southwestern Europe: France [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Louisiana, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Nevada
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil [s.]
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

References:

• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• 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.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. [lists as R. rugosum (L.) J. P. Bergeret].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Miller, A. G. & T. A. Cope. 1996–. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rollins, R. C. 1993. The Cruciferae of continental North America.
• 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.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rapistrum rugosum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rapistrum rugosum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rapistrum rugosum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Myagrum rugosum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Rapistrum rugosum (L.) All.:

• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 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.

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