A flowering plant family Brassicaceae, also known as Cruciferae, is referred to as a family brassicaceae or even cabbage personal. Farming plants in the family brassicaceae come likewise referred to as cole crops; cole comes from either a Latin word caulis (stem), as does a German Kohl.

A personal contains mintage of groovy economic importance, providing tremendously of the globe's winter vegetables. These include cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, collards, and kale (all cultivars of of these metal money, Brassica oleracea), Chinese kale, rutabaga (also referred to as Swedish turnips or even swedes), seakale, turnips, radish and kohl rabi. More swell known members of the Brassicaceae include rapeseed (canola and others), mustard seed, horseradish, wasabi and watercress. A virtually all intensely deliberate member of the Brassicaceae is the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana.

A personal was at one time known as Cruciferae ("cross-bearing"), because a quaternion petals of their flowers are evocative of crosses. Several phytologist however refer to members of the personal when "crucifers". Based on data from ICBN Art. Eighteen.Pentad (St Louis Code) Cruciferae is to exist as think of with validity published, & is so an accepted surrogate title.

Distribution and description
A family brassicaceae is concentrated in the temperate regions and reaches maximum diversity in a area of the Mediterranean area. It contains ended 350 genera & astir 3000 metal money.

A personal consists of herbaceous plants with semiannual, bi-annual & perennial life. Members of this personal typically own alternate (rarely paired) leaves. Virtually all members part the suite of glucosinolate compounds that has a average pungent odor commonly associated sustaining cole crops.

When the bit of members keep around seeds by having a high erucic acid content, making these unsafe to dine in big drugs, a lot members of this personal come eatable.