Index / Search / Brassica juncea
§1 Plant
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.
vernacular brown mustard — species · Brassicaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Brassicaceae Burnett
- Genus
- Brassica
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 488 counties across 47 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.2
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 283,040
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 488 counties across 47 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 I ▾
California view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 47 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Boone 17007
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Edgar 17045
- Ford 17053
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Livingston 17105
- Madison 17119
- Marshall 17123
- Massac 17127
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Morgan 17137
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Pike 17149
- Pulaski 17153
- Richland 17159
- Schuyler 17169
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Union 17181
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Beauregard 22011
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Jefferson 22051
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maine view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 16 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Athens 39009
- Auglaize 39011
- Butler 39017
- Columbiana 39029
- Crawford 39033
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Highland 39071
- Holmes 39075
- Jefferson 39081
- Knox 39083
- Lawrence 39087
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Medina 39103
- Monroe 39111
- Morgan 39115
- Noble 39121
- Perry 39127
- Pickaway 39129
- Portage 39133
- Ross 39141
- Trumbull 39155
- Wayne 39169
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Crawford 42039
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 19 I ▾
- Bath 51017
- Chesterfield 51041
- Fauquier 51061
- Giles 51071
- Goochland 51075
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Highland 51091
- James City 51095
- Loudoun 51107
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Southampton 51175
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
Washington view state ↗ 8 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 17 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BRJU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3042751 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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