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Chinese Mustard - Brassica juncea
Other Names:
Brown Mustard, India Mustard, Leaf Mustard, Oriental Mustard, Vegetable Mustard
General Description
Glabrous to sparsely hairy annual. Stems erect, branched, 20–80 cm. Basal leaves lyrate-pinnate with dentate margins, early deciduous. Stem leaves 4–15 cm long, petiolate below, becoming merely lobed and sessile above. Petals 7–10 mm long. Fruits: the body 2–4 cm long, strongly 2-nerved; the beak 6–10 mm long, conical (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Non-native
Range Comments
European native now widespread in North America.
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 31
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Relative Density
Recency
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Habitat
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus rufocinctus,
Bombus sitkensis, and
Bombus occidentalis (Thorp et al. 1983).
Management
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
View Online Publication- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
- Nance, E.L. 1994. Quantification of flea beetle injury Phyllotreta cruciferae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on canola in Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 56 p.
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