Taxon: Hirschfeldia incana (L.) Lagr.-Foss.

Common names:

• buchanweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• hairy brassica   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• hoary mustard   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Mediterranean mustard   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• summer mustard   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• gewöhnlicher Grausenf   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• mostarda-bastarda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• rúcula-bastarda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of black mustard   (fide Euphytica 158:213. 2007, reporting a successful cross when B. nigra was the female parent)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of kale   (fide Euphytica 158:213, 217. 2007, based on reports of successful hybridization with B. oleracea)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of rape   (fide Euphytica 158:213, 217. 2007, based on reports of successful hybridization with B. napus)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Dagestan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia [Islands]; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Western Cape
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Ryukyu Islands
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland [e.]; Norway [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part [w.]
  Southeastern Europe: Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Nevada
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

References:

• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Appel, O. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2003. Cruciferae. P. 5:126 in: Kubitzki, K., ed., The families and genera of vascular plants. [= Erucastrum incanum (L.) Koch].
• 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)
• 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.
• FitzJohn, R. G. et al. 2007. Hybridisation within Brassica and allied genera: evaluation of potential for transgene escape. Euphytica 158:209–230.
• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• 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.
• 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.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• 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.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rollins, R. C. 1993. The Cruciferae of continental North America.
• Siemens, J. 2011. Hirschfeldia. Pp. 10:171–176 in: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, oilseeds.
• 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).
• Warwick, S. I. & J. C. Hall. 2009. Chapter 2. Phylogeny of Brassica and wild relatives. Pp. 19–36 in: Gupta, S. K., Biology and breeding of Crucifers.
• Warwick, S. I. et al. 2006. Brassicaceae: Species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:249–258. [lists in database as a synonym of Sinapis incana].
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Brassica adpressa Boiss.
  
• (≡) Erucastrum incanum (L.) Koch
  
• (≡) Sinapis incana L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Hirschfeldia incana (L.) Lagr.-Foss.:

• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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