Participant Info

Species

Brassica juncea

Family

Brassicaceae

CommonName

Indian mustard, brown mustard

Presence

Maybe

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1935

LatestDate

1985

Ecosystem

basin

Geobotanical

UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. For brown mustard there are two Watershed vouchered occurrences: one found by Ramaley in 1935 along the Conejos River; the other found roadside 5 miles NWN of Alamosa in 1985. Ackerfield shows Saguache Co, with no vouchers in SEINet. Brown mustard has been cultivated for culinary purposes and around Colorado is known to escape and persist. Such escapes have been recorded, in a very scattered way, down the Rio Grande drainage almost to the Gulf of Mexico.

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