Images of Mustards
Note: The following cover crop images are part of an extensive collection of cover crop photographs maintained the UC SAREP staff. The images have not been completely categorized and labeled. Some will be included in a book on cover crops due out in 1997, but all images have been made available online because of the overwhelming number of requests we have had for them.
	Phacelia and mustards are used as nitrogen catch crops in England, Europe, and the U.S.A.
	Mustards and other brassicaceous cover crops have strong taproots. Winters, Yolo Co., CA. Photo by Bob Bugg
	Black mustard (Brassica nigra) is a resident alien plant sometimes used as a cover crop. Winters, Yolo Co., CA, photo by Bob Bugg.
	Rapeseed or canola (Brassica napus) may be grown for oil or as a cover crop. Tifton, GA. Photo by Sharad C. Phatak.

	Rapeseed or canola, Brassica napus, may be grown for seed or as a cover crop. Tifton, GA. Photo by Sharad C. Phatak.
	Various mustards are used as cover crops in Californian orchards and vineyards. Carneros, CA. Photo by Robert L. Bugg.
	Black mustard (Brassica nigra) root.
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