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Brassicaceae[FNA7, HC2](Mustard Family)
Synonyms:
Cruciferae[HC] 

Notes: Our taxonomy and nomenclature follows the treatments of Flora of North America Vol. 7 (2010) and Rollins (1993a, 1993b, 1993c), unless otherwise noted.

References:

» Ronse Decraene, L-P. and J. R. Akeroyd. 1988. Generic limits in Polygonum and related genera (Polygonaceae) on the basis of floral characters. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 321-371.

Family information last updated 4/19/2020 by David Giblin.

Taxon (native taxa in boldface)
Common Names
# Synonyms
garlic mustard
1 synonym
small alyssum, pale madwort
0 synonyms
desert alyssum
0 synonyms
yellowtuft
0 synonyms
alyssum
0 synonyms
kamchatka rockcress, lyre-leaved rockcress, western rockcress
5 synonyms
mouse-ear cress, thalecress
0 synonyms
Arabis alpina L.[FNA7, HC2]
 
0 synonyms
mountain rockcress
0 synonyms
crosshaired rockcress
0 synonyms
hairy rockcress, Pacific coast rockcress
3 synonyms
Cascade rockcress, Columbia Gorge rockcress, fork-haired rockcress
2 synonyms
Nuttall's rockcress
3 synonyms
Olympics rockcress
1 synonym
 
1 synonym
var. pycnocarpa[FNA7, HC2]
 
1 synonym
horseradish
1 synonym
sandweed
3 synonyms
rockcress
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
American wintercress rocket, yellow rocket
4 synonyms
Belle Isle cress, landcress, early yellow rocket, early wintercress
4 synonyms
yellow rocket, bitter wintercress
5 synonyms
hoary alyssum
1 synonym
dark-red-flowered rockcress
2 synonyms
Calder's rockcress
1 synonym
Cascades rockcress
1 synonym
cobre rockcress
1 synonym
Cusick's rockcress
1 synonym
Davidson's rockcress
0 synonyms
spreading-pod rockcress
2 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
Graham's rockcress
1 synonym
 
0 synonyms
Howell's rockcress
1 synonym
Lemmon's rockcress
2 synonyms
woody-branched rockcress
1 synonym
Lyall's rockcress, murry's rockcress
3 synonyms
little-leaf rockcress, small-leaved rockcress
2 synonyms
Mt. Adams rockcress
1 synonym
Columbia rockcress, few-flowered rockcress, small-flowered rockcress
4 synonyms
small-flowered rockcress
1 synonym
dangle-pod rockcress
2 synonyms
broad-seeded rockcress, flatseed rockcress
1 synonym
many-flowered rockcress
0 synonyms
meadow rockcress
0 synonyms
Blue Mountain rockcress, hoary rockcress
1 synonym
 
0 synonyms
reflexed rockcress
6 synonyms
elegant rockcress, slender rockcress
7 synonyms
Canadian rockcress, Drummond's rockcress
3 synonyms
woody rockcress
1 synonym
 
0 synonyms
brown mustard, leaf mustard
4 synonyms
rapeseed
1 synonym
black mustard
2 synonyms
cabbage, wild cabbage
1 synonym
Brassica rapa L.[FNA7, HC2]
common mustard, field mustard, wild turnip
3 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
American sea-rocket
0 synonyms
var. edentula[FNA7, HC2, KZ99]
American sea-rocket
1 synonym
Cakile maritima Scop.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
European sea-rocket
1 synonym
ssp. maritima[FNA7, HC2]
European sea-rocket
0 synonyms
hairy false flax, littlepod false flax
1 synonym
false flax, gold-of-pleasure
1 synonym
shepherd's-purse
1 synonym
angled bittercress, seaside bittercress
4 synonyms
alpine bittercress
2 synonyms
Brewer's bittercress
7 synonyms
Constance's bittercress
0 synonyms
heart-leaved bittercress, large mountain bittercress, Lyall's bittercress
3 synonyms
New Zealand bittercress
0 synonyms
wavy bittercress
4 synonyms
hairy bittercress, shotweed
0 synonyms
beautiful bittercress, Nuttall's toothwort, slender toothwort
10 synonyms
western bittercress
2 synonyms
wood bittercress
1 synonym
few-seeded bittercress, little western bittercress
1 synonym
Saddle Mountain bittercress
0 synonyms
Willamette Valley bittercress
0 synonyms
Pennsylvania bittercress, quaker bittercress
3 synonyms
cuckooflower
1 synonym
cliff toothwort
0 synonyms
Siberian bittercress, umbellate bittercress
1 synonym
thickstemmed wild cabbage
0 synonyms
wild cabbage, California mustard
5 synonyms
hairy wild cabbage
0 synonyms
spearhead
0 synonyms
crossflower, blue mustard
2 synonyms
Danish scurvy-grass, spoonwort
5 synonyms
hare's-ear mustard, treacle mustard
0 synonyms
Crambe maritima L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
sea-kale
0 synonyms
alkali false whitlow-grass, Douglas' whitlow-grass
1 synonym
California tansymustard
0 synonyms
mountain tansymustard
3 synonyms
cut-leaved tansymustard
0 synonyms
ssp. incisa[FNA7, HC2]
cut-leaved tansymustard
7 synonyms
mountain tansymustard, narrow tansymustard, sticky tansymustard
3 synonyms
Nelson's tansymustard, sagebrush tansymustard
2 synonyms
paradise tansymustard
1 synonym
western tansymustard
0 synonyms
shortpod tansymustard, western tansymustard
4 synonyms
flixweed
0 synonyms
stinkweed, wall rocket mustard
0 synonyms
slimleaf wall rocket
0 synonyms
Alaska draba, slender whitlow-grass
3 synonyms
silvery draba
1 synonym
golden draba, golden whitlow-grass
3 synonyms
alpine whitlow-grass, great alpine whitlow-grass, Mt. Lassen whitlow-grass
1 synonym
Draba borealis DC.[FNA7, HC2, Rollins 1993a]
boreal whitlow-grass, northern whitlow-grass
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
Draba cana Rydb.[FNA7, HC2]
lance-leaved draba
2 synonyms
Draba crassa Rydb.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
thickleaved draba
0 synonyms
Rocky Mountain draba, thick-leaved draba, snowbed whitlow-grass
2 synonyms
roundfruit draba
1 synonym
Bitterroot draba
1 synonym
Draba densifolia Nutt.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
Nuttall's draba, dense-leaf whitlow-grass
5 synonyms
Austrian whitlow-wort
0 synonyms
pointed draba
2 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
Hitchcock's draba
0 synonyms
Draba incerta Payson[FNA7, HC, HC2]
whitlow-wort, Yellowstone draba whitlow-wort
6 synonyms
long-stalk whitlow-grass
1 synonym
lancefruit draba, whitlow-wort
9 synonyms
Macoun's draba
0 synonyms
Draba nemorosa L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
woods draba, woodland whitlow-grass
4 synonyms
Olympic draba, Payson's draba, Payson's whitlow-grass
1 synonym
few-seeded draba, few-seeded whitlow-grass
4 synonyms
limestone draba
0 synonyms
Payson's draba
1 synonym
 
1 synonym
broad-pod whitlow-grass
2 synonyms
Porsild's draba
0 synonyms
Draba praealta Greene[FNA7, HC, HC2]
tall whitlow-grass
5 synonyms
Carolina whitlow-grass
6 synonyms
coast mountain draba, coast mountain whitlow-grass
1 synonym
globefruit draba
0 synonyms
Draba stenoloba Ledeb.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
Alaska whitlow-grass
5 synonyms
Stanley Creek draba
0 synonyms
Draba ventosa A. Gray[FNA7, HC, HC2]
Wind River draba
1 synonym
Draba verna L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
spring whitlow-grass
6 synonyms
arugula
0 synonyms
garden rocket
2 synonyms
dog mustard, hairy rocket
2 synonyms
sand-dwelling wallflower
4 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
sand dune wallflower, western wallflower
1 synonym
var. capitatum[FNA7, HC2]
prairie rocket, rough wallflower
3 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
treacle mustard, wormseed wallflower
2 synonyms
Aegean wallflower
1 synonym
prairie rocket, small-flowered rocket, small wallflower
1 synonym
pale wallflower, western wallflower
2 synonyms
Erysimum repandum L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
spreading wallflower
1 synonym
euclidium, Syrian mustard
2 synonyms
salt water cress
1 synonym
Hesperis matronalis L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
mother-of-the-evening, dame's rocket
0 synonyms
Mediterranean hoary mustard, short-podded mustard, summer mustard
1 synonym
hutchinsia, prostrate hutchinsia, ovalpurse
7 synonyms
globe candytuft
0 synonyms
flatpod, scalepod
1 synonym
Isatis tinctoria L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
Dyer's woad
0 synonyms
sharp-toothed peppergrass
1 synonym
globepodded hoarycress, whitetop
3 synonyms
field cress, field peppergrass, pepperwort
2 synonyms
chalapa hoarycress, lens-podded hoarycress, Asian white-top
6 synonyms
common peppergrass, elongate peppergrass, hairy-fruited peppergrass, large-fruited peppergrass, prairie peppergrass
7 synonyms
alkali peppergrass, veiny peppergrass
1 synonym
lesser swinecress, lesser wartcress
1 synonym
heart-podded hoarycress, hoary pepperwort
3 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
purple-anther pepperweed, Smith's pepperweed
0 synonyms
Lepidium latifolium L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
dittander, broad-leaved peppergrass, broad-leaved pepperwort
1 synonym
montane pepperweed
1 synonym
Lepidium nitidum Nutt.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
shining peppergrass
4 synonyms
oblong pepperweed
0 synonyms
forked pepperwort, sharpfruited pepperwort
1 synonym
clasping-leaved peppergrass, round-leaved peppergrass, yellow-flowered peppergrass
1 synonym
branched peppergrass
2 synonyms
Lepidium ruderale L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
narrow-leaved pepperwort, roadside pepperwort
1 synonym
Lepidium sativum L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
garden cress pepperwort
0 synonyms
upright peppergrass
0 synonyms
Lepidium virginicum L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
tall pepperweed
0 synonyms
coastal peppergrass, hairy peppergrass
8 synonyms
ssp. virginicum[FNA7, HC2]
tall peppergrass
2 synonyms
sweet alyssum
3 synonyms
Lunaria annua L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
honesty, money plant
2 synonyms
hoary stock
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
onerow watercress
0 synonyms
watercress
2 synonyms
ball mustard
1 synonym
Nye County false candytuft
0 synonyms
wild candytuft, Fendler's pennycress
2 synonyms
wild candytuft
5 synonyms
smallflowered pennycress
1 synonym
perfoliate pennycress
2 synonyms
daggerpod
8 synonyms
alpine twinpod, Washington twinpod
1 synonym
Great Plains bladderpod
0 synonyms
keeled bladderpod
1 synonym
ssp. carinata[FNA7, HC2]
 
0 synonyms
beautiful bladderpod
0 synonyms
Chambers's twinpod
0 synonyms
common twinpod
0 synonyms
ssp. didymocarpa[FNA7, HC2]
common twinpod
1 synonym
 
1 synonym
Columbia bladderpod, Douglas' bladderpod
1 synonym
ssp. douglasii[FNA7, HC2]
Douglas's bladderpod
0 synonyms
White Bluffs bladderpod
1 synonym
Sheep Mountain bladderpod
0 synonyms
Geyer's twinpod
3 synonyms
ssp. geyeri[FNA7, HC2]
double bladderpod, Geyer's twinpod bladderpod, Geyer's twinpod
1 synonym
 
1 synonym
bitterroot bladderpod
0 synonyms
Snake River twinpod
0 synonyms
King's bladderpod
1 synonym
Klaus's bladderpod
0 synonyms
Middle Butte bladderpod
0 synonyms
western bladderpod
1 synonym
western bladderpod
5 synonyms
Oregon twinpod
3 synonyms
low bladderpod
0 synonyms
mountain-view bladderpod
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
spatula-leaf bladderpod
0 synonyms
combleaf
1 synonym
jointed charlock, wild radish
0 synonyms
Raphanus sativus L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
garden radish
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
alpine yellowcress
1 synonym
Austrian yellowcress field-cress
4 synonyms
 
1 synonym
Columbia yellowcress cress
5 synonyms
blunt-leaved yellowcress, truncate yellowcress
4 synonyms
western yellowcress
7 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
bog yellowcress, marsh yellowcress
3 synonyms
hipsid bog yellowcress
2 synonyms
ssp. palustris[FNA7, HC2]
bog yellowcress
8 synonyms
spreading yellowcress
0 synonyms
roundfruit yellowcress
1 synonym
creeping yellowcress
0 synonyms
Modoc yellowcress
0 synonyms
puzzling halimolobos
5 synonyms
fissurewort, whited's halimolobos fissurewort
2 synonyms
Sinapis alba L.[FNA7, HC2]
white mustard
1 synonym
charlock, corn mustard, wild mustard
6 synonyms
Jim Hill mustard, tumble mustard, tall rocket
0 synonyms
lava cress, rush mustard, flax-leaved plains mustard, Salmon River plains mustard
3 synonyms
Sisymbrium loeselii L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
false London rocket, Loesel's tumblemustard
0 synonyms
hedge mustard
3 synonyms
Indian hedgemustard
0 synonyms
alpine smelowskia, Siberian smelowskia
2 synonyms
short-fruited smelowskia
1 synonym
biennial stanleya
0 synonyms
bushy stanleya
0 synonyms
var. pinnata[FNA7, HC2]
 
0 synonyms
woolly stanleya
0 synonyms
perennial stanleya
0 synonyms
long-beaked fiddle mustard, streptanthella
1 synonym
heart-leaved streptanthus
0 synonyms
var. cordatus[FNA7, HC2]
 
0 synonyms
African adder's-mouth, African adder's-mouth malcolmia
1 synonym
Subularia aquatica L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
water awl-wort
0 synonyms
awlwort
1 synonym
shepherd's cress
1 synonym
arrowleaf thelypody
0 synonyms
nodding thelypody
0 synonyms
Howell's thelypody
0 synonyms
ssp. howellii[FNA7, HC2]
Howell's thelypody
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
entire-leaved thelypody
0 synonyms
 
0 synonyms
entire-leaved thelypody
3 synonyms
cut-leaf thelypody, thick-leaved thelypody
2 synonyms
many flowered thelypody
1 synonym
northwestern thelypody
0 synonyms
wavyleaf thelypody
0 synonyms
slender thelypody
0 synonyms
ssp. sagittatum[FNA7, HC2]
sagittate thelypody, slender thelypody
0 synonyms
Thlaspi arvense L.[FNA7, HC, HC2]
fanweed, field pennycress
1 synonym
sand fringepod, lacepod
2 synonyms
tower mustard
3 synonyms