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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. Mustard Family
  7. Cabbages and Mustards
  8. Brassica Subgen. Brassica
  9. Field Mustard

species 24,398 observations

Field Mustard

Brassica rapa

Status
introduced
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

137 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Fall Armyworm Moth, Bertha Armyworm Moth, Ipsilon Dart Moth, Cabbage Looper Moth 30
  • Hosted animals Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it Vegetable Leafminer 1
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Red-legged Grasshopper, Striped Flea Beetle, Cabbage Root Fly, Brassica Leaf Miner 30
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Prunus Miner Bee, Tripartite Sweat Bee, Orange-legged Furrow Bee, Prickly Ceratina 76

Children

  • Chinese Cabbage

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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