Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Mountain tansymustard

Descurainia incana

Also called Richardson's Tansy Mustard, Gray Tansy Mustard, Grey Tansy Mustard, Mountain Tansy Mustard, Richardson's Tansymustard

Mountain tansymustard
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Subarctic America to N. & WC. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Descurainia incana is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name mountain tansymustard. It is native to much of North America, including most of Canada, the western United States, and Baja California. It is known from many types of habitat. It is a biennial herb with a slender, greenish, often hairy stem sometimes exceeding a meter tall. The leaves are narrowly to widely oval in shape, the lower ones lobed and sometimes compound, the upper generally unlobed. The mustardlike inflorescence is a series of developing fruits beneath an elongating cluster of small bright yellow flowers. The fruit is a thin, pointed silique up to 2 centimeters long.

Other Descurainia plants

Descurainia bourgaeana · Sierra tansymustard · Paradise tansymustard · Western tansymustard · Herb sophia · Hugueninia tanacetifolia · Wyoming Tansy Mustard · Tansymustard

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Descurainia incana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…