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12 unusual facts about Brassicaceae


Arbuscular mycorrhiza

Members of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), like cabbage, cauliflower, canola, and crambe, don’t have arbuscular mycorrihizal fungi on their roots.

Azores Wood Pigeon

They eat rounded and fleshy young leaves, leaves from Prunus genus, young shoots from Asteraceae, Caryophyllaceae, and Brassicaceae (Cruciferae).

Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve

A perennial herb of the Brassicaceae or mustard family, it blooms from March through July with yellow flowers on terminal spikes.

Cardamine concatenata

The Cutleaf Toothwort, Crow's Toes, Pepper Root, Purple-flowered Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) is a flowering plant in Brassicaceae.

Cardamine pratensis

Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower or lady's smock), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia.

Draba fladnizensis

Draba fladnizensis is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names arctic draba, Austrian draba, and white arctic whitlow-grass.

Draba ramosissima

Draba ramosissima is an species of flowering plant in the mustard family.

Ellen Hutchins

The genus Hutchinsia (Brassicaceae) was named in her honour and, even if now replaced by the name Hornungia, the common name "Hutchinsia" persists in the UK for Hornungia petraea.

History of plant systematics

Ray, who listed over 18,000 plant species in his works, is credited with establishing the monocot/dicot division and some of his groups — mustards, mints, legumes and grasses — stand today (though under modern family names).

Hornungia alpina

Hornungia alpina (also Hutchinsia alpina or Pritzelago alpina) is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.

Hyaloperonospora parasitica

It has been considered for a long time to cause downy mildew of a variety of species within the Brassicaceae family such as oilseed rape and cauliflower, on which the disease can cause economically important damage by killing seedlings or affecting the quality of produce intended for freezing.

Physaria globosa

Physaria globosa (syn. Lesquerella globosa), is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family commonly known as globe bladderpod, Short's bladderpod, and Lesquereux's mustard.


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Andrena agilissima

Andrena agilissima is an oligolectic species, feeding only on pollen of a few genera of Cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae species, as Brassica napus, Brassica rapa, Raphanus raphanistrum, Barbarea vulgaris and Sinapis species).

Barbarea balcana

Barbarea balcana (also known as Balkan yellow rocket) is a perennial herb of the genus Barbarea from the family Brassicaceae / Cruciferae that grows in wet spring areas.

Bladderpod

Physaria, a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae

Paysonia, a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae

Cleomaceae

These genera were previously included in the family Capparaceae, but were raised to a distinct family when DNA evidence suggested that the genera included in it are more closely related to Brassicaceae than they are to Capparaceae.

Hugueninia tanacetifolia

Hugueninia tanacetifolia, the Tansy-leaved rocket, is a species of flowering plant in the monotypic genus Hugueninia belonging to the mustard family.