Mutarda nigra (L.) Bernh.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China North-Central, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Qinghai, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, West Himalaya, Xinjiang

Introduced into:

Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Azores, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Columbia, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Russia, Chile Central, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Cuba, Cyprus, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East European Russia, Ecuador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nepal, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russia, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Recorded in error in:

Corse

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• (2022). https://doi.org/10.14258/turczaninowia.25.2.4. epublication.
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An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215. [Cited as Brassica nigra.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

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