Western Tansymustard (Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton)
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Legend | Color |
Native | |
Expanded | |
Native or Not Present | |
Native or Expanded |
This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.
Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.
This is a weedy plant that thrives on barren sites with poor soil. Humans have created more habitat for it in the northeast through land clearing and soil degradation, and as a result it has expanded its range slightly in this region, but it remains uncommon to rare, probably due to its preference for calcareous soils which tend to support lush vegetation in the humid northeast.
↑Links & External Resources
• Western Tansymustard | Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata (western tansymustard) | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata | Go Botany (About This Site)
• Western Tansy Mustard | iNaturalist (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata | Flora of North America (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata | Missouri Plants (About This Site)
• Western Tansymustard | Maryland Biodiversity Project (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata (Tansy Mustard) | Minnesota Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton var. brachycarpa (Richardson) Fernald (Western Tansy Mustard) | Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora (About This Site)