EPPO Global Database

Eruca vesicaria(ERUVV)

Overview
Code created in: 2004-04-08

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ERUVV
  • Preferred name: Eruca vesicaria
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Cavanilles

Notes

Mediterranean region, Sahel. Since antiquity, E. vesicaria has been taken into cultivation (as "subsp. sativa"), to the point that it is now difficult to distinguish wild plants from the naturalized descendants of cultivated ones, and to establish what its original geographical distribution may have been.  Common names can be used more or less interchangeably for the wild and cultivated plants


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Eruca pinnatifida (Desfontaines) Pomel
Eruca vesicaria subsp. vesicaria (Linnaeus) Cavanilles

Common names
Name
Language
beharki Basque
ерука Bulgarian
eruga Catalan
ruca Catalan
ruca pudent Catalan
ruqueta Catalan
sjetvena riga Croatian
common rocket English
rocket English
roquette French
roquette vésicaire French
Senfrauke German
ερούκα εδώδιμος Greek
rucola Italian
aurrique Occitan
roqueta Occitan
rouguéte Occitan
гусеничник посевной Russian
индау посевной Russian
руккола Russian
эрука посевная Russian
eruca Spanish
oruga Spanish
roqueta Spanish
ruca Spanish
roka Turkish
ерука посівна Ukrainian