Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Brassica rapa [Brassica campestris] [Sinapsis pekinensis]
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- CommonName
- field mustard, rapeseed
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1956
- LatestDate
- 2022
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Conejos, Rio Grande, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Del Norte
- Comments
- There are five locations for rapeseed around the Basin, all by cultivated fields or homesteads. The sixth is a 2022 photorecord from a yard in Del Norte, perhaps of a plant deriving from a seed packet (if so, it would have persisted for six years). Field mustard is not much cultivated in the Valley any more. It escapes more frequently than Brassica napus, and occurrences have been noted in all USA states, several in the Rio Grande drainage close to the Gulf of Mexico. The specific epithet (rapa) and common name (rapeseed), by the way, derive from the Latin word for turnip, rapa.
- Annotation