Mummenhoffia alliacea (L.) Esmailbegi & Al-Shehbaz

Locations ofMummenhoffia alliacea (L.) Esmailbegi & Al-Shehbaz in Virginia

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Family
Brassicaceae
Botanical Name
Mummenhoffia alliacea (L.) Esmailbegi & Al-Shehbaz
Common Name
Roadside Pennycress, Garlic Pennycress
Synonym(s)
Thlaspi alliaceum L.
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
Thlaspi alliaceum L.
Comments
Spreading explosively in recent years and now abundant along many major highways and river floodplains in the Piedmont and mountain regions.

Based on the work of Esmailbegi et al. (2018, Taxon 67: 324-340), it appears that this species is properly placed in the genus Mummenhoffia.
Habitat
A ruderal of mowed highway medians, shoulders, and cut slopes as well as fields and weedy alluvial soils. Infrequent to locally common in the Piedmont and mountains; rare in the Coastal Plain.
Native Status
Introduced

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