Brassica tournefortii (Asian mustard)

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Brassica tournefortii Gouan

Asian mustard, pale cabbage, African mustard, Sahara mustard

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Brassica tournefortii Gouan var. sisymbrioides (Fisch.) Grossh.

2/28/2010 · Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California · ≈ 9 × 14″ (23 × 35 cm)

2/28/2010 · Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California · ≈ 2 × 1′ (62 × 41 cm)

4/28/2018 · Scenic Drive, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada · ≈ 1½ × 1′ (52 × 34 cm)

2/28/2010 · Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California · ≈ 17 × 12″ (44 × 29 cm)

2/28/2010 · Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California · ≈ 2 × 1′ (62 × 41 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Rosidae	Roses, legumes, proteas, dogwoods, hydrangeas, mistletoes, euphorbias, grapes, many more
Order	Brassicales	Mustard, cabbage, caper, papaya, nasturtiums, many others; most produce mustard oil
Family	Brassicaceae	Mustards, cabbages
Genus	Brassica	A Latin name for “cabbage”
Species	tournefortii	After Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), author of Institutiones Rei Herbariae published in 1700 and a celebrated French botanist who was the first to properly define genera and was an important forerunner of Linnaeus. He died the year after Linnaeus was born

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Brassica tournefortii description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.