Taxon: Sisymbrium orientale L.

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Common names:

• eastern rocket   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Indian hedge mustard   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Oriental mustard   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  
• Oriental rocket   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wild mustard   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• orientalische Rauke   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• orientsenap   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide F Arabia)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain; Kuwait; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine [s. & Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands [Tenerife]
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova
  Southeastern Europe: Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [n. & c.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia; Peru - Lima
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• exact native range obscure

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.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares.
• 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).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• Middleditch, B. S. & A. M. Amer. 1991. Kuwaiti plants: distribution, traditional medicine, phytochemistry,. economic value (Studies in Plant Science 2).
• 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.
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sisymbrium orientale.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sisymbrium orientale.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sisymbrium orientale.

Check other web resources for Sisymbrium orientale 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
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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