Brassica oleracea L.

Brassica oleracea L.

BRASSICACEAE

- Mustard family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Brassica oleracea L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 667 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Brassica oleracea

Common names

U.S. name: Cabbage

English name: asparagus broccoli

English name: Bedford cabbage

Spanish name: repollo de Bruselas

French name: chou vivace

Italian name: Cavolo comune

German name: Zier-Kohl

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Brassica oleracea L. var. acephala DC.
= Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Capparales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Brassica
Species:

Page counter: 1519 ( AVG: 221.05 / 219.747 )

Gallery:

Brassica oleracea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, località Ronco, orto, BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Brassica oleracea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Brassica oleracea
Brussels sprouts at Foodland Pukalani, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Brassica oleracea
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Brassica oleracea
Kailaan habit at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Tuscano kale habit at Olinda, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, centro abitato, orto. , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Brassica oleracea
Tuscano kale backlit leaf at Olinda, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Brassica oleracea
Kale habit at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Habit at Kula Ace Hardware and Nursery, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, Comprensorio di San Giovanni, Orto, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Brassica oleracea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Grado, presso Punta Spin, lungo la statale diretta a Grado., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Brassica oleracea
Habit at Lowes Garden Center Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Habit at Walmart Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Brassica oleracea
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Brassica oleracea
Kailaan leaves at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Brassica oleracea
Kale at Maui County Fair Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CT, DC, GA, IA, IL, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MT, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, VA, WA), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (ON, PE, QC), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Brassica oleracea L.
Map for Brassica oleracea L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Brassica oleracea L. var. acephala DC. [170]
2) Brassica oleracea L. var. alboglabra (L.H. Bailey) Musil [721]
3) Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis L. [3377]
4) Brassica oleracea L. var. caulorapa DC. [182]
5) Brassica oleracea L. var. costata DC. [266]
6) Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Plenck [2353]
7) Brassica rapa L. ssp. rapa [224]
8) Brassica rapa L. var. silvestris (Lam.) Briggs [551]
9) Brassica tournefortii Gouan [1413]
10) Brickellia atractyloides A. Gray var. arguta (B.L. Rob.) Jeps. [83]

18-Apr-2024 - Week-16