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Mustard Flower Rust

Puccinia monoica

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) steinm, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 25, February 21, March 22, April 41, May 72, June 27, July 17, August 17, September 22, October 22, November 29, December 22.
United States920
Canada438
California272
British Columbia204
Alberta142
Colorado125
Wyoming123
Nevada105
Idaho90
Saskatchewan60

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Plant pathogenDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly parasitize or infect plants.Inferred from its group
  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassPucciniomycetes
Orderrust fungi · Pucciniales
FamilyPucciniaceae
GenusOrange-Yellow Rusts · Puccinia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Mustard Flower Rust with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.