Eruca sativa Mill.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Baleares, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Gulf States, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qinghai, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Yemen

Introduced into:

Albania, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Chad, Chile Central, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Illinois, India, Iowa, Japan, Kansas, Madeira, Manitoba, Maryland, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Norway, Ontario, Oregon, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Québec, Romania, Saskatchewan, Somalia, South Australia, South Dakota, Sudan, Switzerland, Texas, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Utah, Vermont, Victoria, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• (2021). https://alyasmina.org/Eruca/Eruca-aurea.pdf. epublication.
• Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2010). Flora of North America North of Mexico 7: 1-797. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford. [Cited as Eruca vesicaria.]
• Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919. [Cited as Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa.]
• Komiljon, T., Natalya, B., Avazbek, B., Dilnoza, A., Ziyoviddin, Y., Deng, T. & Sun, H. (2020). Flora of the Dzhizak Province, Uzbekistan: 1-523. China Forestry Publishing House. [Cited as Eruca vesicaria.]
• Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden. [Cited as Eruca vesicaria.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

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