Brassica rapa L.
Field mustard; Turnip; Bird's rape; Rape
No habitat climate
80 photographs › Summary
Brassica rapa is an annual to biennial plant species native to Eurasia that is from the Brassicaceae family. The B. rapa subspecies oleifera is an oilseed commonly known as turnip rape, field mustard, bird's rape, and keblock.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Brassica rapa", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
Climate across the habitat
No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 2 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.
Natural habitat
Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAlbania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia · introduced: Denmark, Finland, Føroyar, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Baleares, Corse, France, Sardegna, Spain, Romania, Sicilia, Belarus, Baltic States, Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, Azores, Madeira, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Provinces, Free State, Northern Provinces, Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion, Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, Palestine, Kuwait, China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Nicobar Is., South China Sea, Vietnam, Solomon Is., New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Gilbert Is., New Caledonia, Cook Is., Line Is., Society Is., Tuamotu, Marianas, Marshall Is., Hawaii, Aleutian Is., Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is., Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Galápagos, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Argentina Northwest, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Juan Fernández Is., Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Is., Tristan da Cunha · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual or biennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 555 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Yurii Basov, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Ingvild Riska, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) giantcicada, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Related
Other Brassica 8 in the reference
Brassica balearica Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunoz
Brassica cretica Mustard Photo: CC BY, Daniel Cahen
Brassica fruticulosa Twiggy turnip Photo: CC BY, Em Lamond
Brassica insularis Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY, Drepanostoma
Brassica montana Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY, Noé Fleury Frouart
Brassica napus Rape Photo: CC0, author not stated
Brassica oleracea Cabbage Photo: CC0, author not stated
Brassica rupestris Scillian Wild Cabbage Photo: CC BY, Alfonso La Rosa Names & registers
Also known as Barbarea derchiensis; Brassica amplexicaulis; Brassica antiquorum; Brassica asperifolia; Brassica asperifolia var. esculenta and 273 more. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Family
Brassicaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece +17
Wild records
2 in range · 1 open
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF synonyms
gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF common names
gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21WCVP native range
wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04GBIF occurrence records
gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence search API; 32 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (10 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 21 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)Habitat climate
climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelopeWikidata
wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 279485-1 is Kew's for Brassica rapa L.Wikipedia
wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21iNaturalist photographs, wild
inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22iNaturalist photographs, cultivated
inat.photos.cultivated not askedGBIF media
gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21OpenAlex papers
openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.