Brassicaceae
Brown mustard
Brassica juncea
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Brassica
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Common names
By language (59)
- Arabic
- خردل هندي
- Armenian
- Մանանեխ սարեպտական
- arz
- خردل هندى
- azb
- سارپت خاردالی
- Azerbaijani
- Sarpet xardalı
- Bangla
- লাই শাক
- Belarusian
- Гарчыца сарэпцкая
- Bulgarian
- Сарепска горчица
- Burmese
- မုန်ညင်း
- Cantonese
- 芥菜
- Catalan
- Mostassa bruna
- cdo
- Gái-chái
- Chinese
- 芥菜, 芥, 芥子, 菘菜子, 陈芥菜卤汁, 盖菜, 苦菜, 長年菜
- Czech
- Brukev sítinovitá
- Danish
- Sareptasennep
- Divehi
- މުށި ރެވި
- Dutch
- Sareptamosterd, Bruine mosterd, Indische bruine mosterd
- English
- Brown mustard, Chinese mustard, India mustard, Indian mustard, Leaf mustard, Gai choy, Mustard greens, Oriental mustard
- Esperanto
- Bruna sinapo
- Estonian
- Sarepta kapsasrohi, Sarepta sinep
- Filipino
- Mustasa
- Finnish
- Sareptansinappi
- French
- Moutarde brune
- frr
- Brün senep
- German
- Brauner Senf, Ruten-Kohl, Indischer Senf, Rutenkohl, Sareptasenf
- Gujarati
- રાયડો
- Hebrew
- חרדל חום
- Hindi
- राई
- hsb
- Prućikaty kał
- Hungarian
- Szareptai mustár, Barna mustár, Indiai mustár, Indiairépa, Oroszrépa
- Icelandic
- Sinnepskál
- Indonesian
- Brown mustard, Green mustard, Indian mustard, Mustar India, Sesawi coklat
- Japanese
- カラシナ, からしな, からし菜, オリエンタルマスタード, カラシ菜, セイヨウカラシナ, 芥子泥, 芥子菜
- Kazakh
- Сарепт қышасы
- Korean
- 갓
- lah
- توریا
- Latvian
- Sareptas sinepe, Zilganā sinepe
- Malay
- Sawi, Pokok Sawi
- mnc
- ᡥᠠᡵᡤᡳ ᠰᠣᡤᡳ
- nan
- Koà-chhài
- Nepali
- रायो
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Sennepskål
- Persian
- خردل چینی
- Polish
- Kapusta sitowata, Gorczyca sarepska, Kapusta sarepska, Kapusta sitowa
- Portuguese
- Mostarda-castanha, Mostarda-marrom, Mostarda-chinesa, Mostarda-da-índia, Mostarda-oriental
- Punjabi
- ਰਾਈ
- Russian
- Горчица сарептская
- shn
- ၽၵ်းၵၢတ်ႇ, ၽၵ်းၵၢတ်ႇၶဵဝ်
- Slovenian
- Sareptska ogrščica, Rjava ogrščica, Ruska ogrščica
- Swedish
- Sareptasenap, Sarepsasenap
- syl
- ꠟꠣꠁ ꠢꠣꠉ, ꠢꠂꠞꠅ
- szy
- Kulang
- Tamil
- கடுகுக் கீரை
- Telugu
- భారతీయ ఆవాలు
- Ukrainian
- Гірчиця салатна
- Vietnamese
- Cải bẹ xanh
- Welsh
- Mwstard Tsieina
- Yoruba
- Brown mustard, Vegetable mustard
- za
- Byaekgat
Synonyms
- Brassica arvensis var. juncea Kuntze
- Brassica besseriana Andrz. ex Trautv.
- Brassica cernua Matsum.
- Brassica cernua (Thunb.) F.B.Forbes & Hemsl.
- Brassica cernua var. chirimenna Makino
- Brassica chenopodiifolia Sennen & Pau
- Brassica chinensis f. japonica (Sieb. ex Miq.) M.Hiroe
- Brassica integrifolia var. timoriana (DC.) O.E.Schulz
- Brassica juncea var. aspera (Prain) O.E.Schulz
- Brassica juncea var. chinensis (L.) N.Busch
- Brassica juncea var. elata (Prain) O.E.Schulz
- Brassica juncea var. japonica (Thunb.) L.H.Bailey
- Brassica juncea var. laevis (Prain) O.E.Schulz
- Brassica juncea var. longipes Tsen & S.H.Lee
- Brassica juncea var. napiformis (Pailleux & Bois) Kitam.
- Brassica juncea var. oleifera Prain
- Brassica juncea var. rugosa (Roxb.) Kitam.
- Brassica juncea var. subintegrifolia Sinskaya
- Brassica juncea var. tsatsai Z.I.Mao
- Brassica juncea var. tumida Tsen & S.H.Lee
- Brassica lanceolata Sauv.
- Brassica napiformis var. multisecta A.I.Baranov
- Brassica richerii Lange
- Brassica rugosa Prain
- Brassica taquetii H.Lév.
- Brassica timoriana F.Muell.
- Crucifera juncea E.H.L.Krause
- Rhamphospermum volgense Andrz. ex Rupr.
- Sinabraca juncea (L.) G.H.Loos
- Sinapis abyssinica A.Braun ex Regel
- Sinapis brassica L.
- Sinapis cernua Thunb.
- Sinapis chinensis var. integrifolia Stokes
- Sinapis japonica Thunb.
- Sinapis oleracea C.Presl
- Sinapis ramosa Roxb.
- Sinapis rugosa Roxb.
- Sinapis sinensis J.F.Gmel.
- Sinapis tenella Moench
- Sinapis timoriana DC.
Flowers
- In flower
- January, March to June, August to October (from 79 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual, Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: introduced, Canada: introduced, Hawaii: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced, Puerto Rico: introduced, U.S. Virgin Islands: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Sergey Basalaev, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Fyodor Pudovikov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: 如此甚好, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Petr Pakandl, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Raja Sekhar Chimirala, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dmitrii Mostovoi, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.