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Washington Flora Checklist A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Washington State Hosted by the University of Washington Herbarium |
About| Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) |
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Notes: (Cruciferae [H&C]) Our taxonomy and nomenclature follows the treatments of Rollins (1993a, 1993b, 1993c), unless otherwise noted. Many of the authorities disagree with those used in H&C. Family Synonyms: » Cruciferae
Literature: » Rollins 1993a = Rollins, R. C. 1993a. The Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA. 976 p.
» Rollins 1993b = Rollins, R. C. 1993b. Brassicaceae [Cruciferae], mustard family. In: Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley.
» Rollins 1993c = Rollins, R. C. 1993c. New taxa and names in the Cruciferae of California. Harvard Papers in Botany 4: 43-48.
Family treatment authored by Peter F. Zika; last updated 10/21/2003 by Peter F. Zika
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| Taxon (native species in boldface) | # Synonyms | Common Names |
| Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara & Grande [IFBC] | 1 | garlic mustard |
| Alyssum alyssoides (L.) L. [H&C] | 0 | small alison, pale alyssum or madwort |
| Alyssum desertorum Stapf [H&C] | 0 | desert alyssum |
| Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. [IFBC] | 0 | mouse-ear cress, thalecress |
| Arabis crucisetosa Constance & Rollins [H&C] | 0 | crosshaired rockcress |
| Arabis cusickii S. Watson [H&C] | 0 | Cusick's rockcress |
| Arabis ×divaricarpa A. Nelson [Rollins, 1993] | 5 | spreadingpod rockcress |
| Arabis drummondii A. Gray [H&C] | 2 | Drummond's or Canadian rockcress |
| Arabis furcata S. Watson [H&C] | 3 | fork-haired or Cascade or Columbia Gorge rockcress |
| Arabis glabra (L.) Bernh. [H&C] | 3 | tower mustard |
| Arabis hirsuta (L.) Scop. var. eschscholtziana (Andrz.) Rollins [H&C] | 1 | Pacific coast rockcress |
| Arabis hirsuta (L.) Scop. var. glabrata Torr. & A. Gray [H&C] | 0 | hairy rockcress |
| Arabis holboellii Hornem. var. pendulocarpa (A. Nelson) Rollins [H&C] | 1 | danglepod rockcress |
| Arabis holboellii Hornem. var. pinetorum (Tidestr.) Rollins [H&C] | 0 | pine rockcress |
| Arabis holboellii Hornem. var. retrofracta (Graham) Rydb. [H&C] | 6 | reversed rockcress |
| Arabis lemmonii S. Watson var. lemmonii [H&C] | 2 | Lemmon's rockcress |
| Arabis lemmonii S. Watson var. paddoensis Rollins [H&C] | 0 | Mt. Adams rockcress |
| Arabis lyallii S. Watson [H&C] | 2 | Lyall's rockcress |
| Arabis lyrata L. var. kamchatica Fisch. ex DC. [H&C] | 1 | lyre-leaved or kamchatka or western rockcress |
| Arabis microphylla Nutt. var. microphylla [H&C] | 2 | littleleaf rockcress |
| Arabis murrayi G.A. Mulligan | 0 | murry's rockcress |
| Arabis nuttallii B.L. Rob. [H&C] | 1 | Nuttall's rockcress |
| Arabis puberula Nutt. [H&C] | 0 | hoary or Blue Mountain rockcress |
| Arabis sparsiflora Nutt. var. atrorubens (Suksd. ex Greene) Rollins [H&C] | 1 | black-flowered rockcress |
| Arabis sparsiflora Nutt. var. columbiana (Macoun) Rollins [H&C] | 0 | Columbia rockcress |
| Arabis sparsiflora Nutt. var. subvillosa (S. Watson) Rollins [H&C] | 1 | few-flowered rockcress |
| Armoracia rusticana P. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb. [IFBC] | 1 | horseradish |
| Athysanus pusillus (Hook.) Greene [H&C] | 0 | sandweed |
| Barbarea orthoceras Ledeb. [H&C] | 3 | American wintercress or yellow rocket |
| Barbarea verna (Mill.) Asch. [H&C] | 0 | Belle Isle cress, early wintercress, landcress, early yellow rocket, scurvygrass |
| Barbarea vulgaris Ait. [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | bitter wintercress, yellow rocket |
| Berteroa incana (L.) DC. [H&C] | 0 | hoary alyssum |
| Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. [H&C] | 2 | Chinese, Indian, brown or leaf mustard |
| Brassica napus L. [Stace, 1997] | 0 | rape, rapeseed, winter rape |
| Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J. Koch [H&C] | 0 | black mustard |
| Brassica oleracea L. var. oleracea [Stace, 1997] | 1 | wild cabbage |
| Brassica rapa L. ssp. campestris (L.) A.R. Clapham [Stace, 1997] | 3 | wild turnip, field mustard, common mustard |
| Cakile edentula (Bigelow) Hook. ssp. edentula [Rollins, 1993] | 3 | sea rocket, American sea rocket |
| Cakile maritima Scop. [H&C] | 0 | sea rocket, European sea rocket |
| Camelina microcarpa Andrz. ex DC. [H&C] | 0 | littlepod false flax, hairy false flax |
| Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz [H&C] | 1 | gold-of-pleasure, false flax |
| Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. [H&C] | 1 | shepherd's-purse |
| Cardamine angulata Hook. [H&C] | 0 | seaside or angled bittercress |
| Cardamine bellidifolia L. | 2 | alpine bittercress |
| Cardamine breweri S. Watson var. breweri [H&C] | 0 | Brewer's bittercress |
| Cardamine breweri S. Watson var. orbicularis (Greene) Detling [H&C] | 0 | round bittercress |
| Cardamine cordifolia A. Gray var. lyallii (S. Watson) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr. [H&C] | 1 | Lyall's bittercress, heart-leaved or large mountain bittercress |
| Cardamine flexuosa With. [Stace, 1997] | 0 | wavy bittercress |
| Cardamine hirsuta L. [Stace, 1997] | 0 | hairy bittercress |
| Cardamine nuttallii Greene var. nuttallii [Rollins, 1993] | 7 | slender or Nuttall's toothwort, beautiful bittercress |
| Cardamine occidentalis (S. Watson ex B.L. Rob.) Howell [H&C] | 0 | western bittercress |
| Cardamine oligosperma Nutt. var. kamtschatica (Regel) Detling [H&C] | 0 | Siberian or umbellate bittercress |
| Cardamine oligosperma Nutt. var. oligosperma [H&C] | 0 | little western bittercress, few-seeded bittercress |
| Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd. [H&C] | 0 | Pennsylvania or quaker bittercress |
| Cardamine pratensis L. var. pratensis [Rollins, 1993] | 0 | cuckoo flower |
| Cardaria chalapensis (L.) Hand.-Mazz. [H&C] | 4 | Asian white-top, chalapa or lens-podded hoarycress |
| Cardaria draba (L.) Desv. [H&C] | 3 | heart-podded hoarycress, hoary pepperwort |
| Cardaria pubescens (C.A. Mey.) Jarm. [H&C] | 1 | globepodded hoarycress, whitetop |
| Caulanthus lasiophyllus (Hook. & Arn.) Payson var. lasiophyllus [Rollins, 1993] | 4 | |
| Chorispora tenella (Pall.) DC. [H&C] | 0 | blue mustard, crossflower |
| Cochlearia groenlandica L. [IFBC] | 3 | Danish scurvygrass; scurvy-grass; spoonwort |
| Conringia orientalis (L.) Dumort. [H&C] | 0 | hare's-ear or treacle mustard |
| Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm. [H&C] | 0 | lesser swinecress or wartcress |
| Cusickiella douglasii (A. Gray) Rollins [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | Douglas' whitlow-grass, alkali false whitlow-grass |
| Descurainia incisa (Engelm.) Britton ssp. filipes (A. Gray) Rollins [Rollins, 1993] | 2 | narrow tansymustard |
| Descurainia incisa (Engelm.) Britton ssp. incisa [Rollins, 1993] | 3 | cut-leaved tansymustard |
| Descurainia incisa (Engelm.) Britton ssp. viscosa (Rydb.) Rollins [Rollins, 1993] | 4 | moutain or sticky tansymustard |
| Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton ssp. brachycarpa (Richardson) Detling [Rollins, 1993] | 2 | western or shortpod tansymustard |
| Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton ssp. nelsonii (Rydb.) Detling [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | Nelson's or sagebrush tansymustard |
| Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl [H&C] | 0 | flixweed |
| Draba albertina Greene [Rollins, 1993] | 2 | slender whitlow-grass, Alaska draba |
| Draba aurea Vahl [H&C] | 2 | golden draba or whitlow-grass |
| Draba aureola S. Watson [H&C] | 1 | Mt. Lassen draba or whitlow-grass, great alpine or alpine whitlow-grass |
| Draba borealis DC. [Rollins, 1993] | 0 | boreal or northern whitlow-grass |
| Draba crassifolia Graham [H&C] | 2 | thick-leaved or Rocky Mountain draba, snowbed whitlow-grass |
| Draba densifolia Nutt. [H&C] | 3 | Nuttall's draba, dense-leaf whitlow-grass |
| Draba incerta Payson var. incerta [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | Yellowstone draba or whitlow-wort |
| Draba lonchocarpa Rydb. var. lonchocarpa [Rollins, 1993] | 3 | lancefruit draba or whitlow-wort |
| Draba lonchocarpa Rydb. var. thompsonii (C.L. Hitchc.) Rollins [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | Thompson's whitlow-grass |
| Draba lonchocarpa Rydb. var. vestita O.E. Schulz [Rollins, 1993; not in H&C] | 1 | lancefruited draba, hairy whitlow-grass |
| Draba longipes Raup [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | long-stalk whitlow-grass |
| Draba nemorosa L. [H&C] | 1 | woodland whitlow-grass, woods draba |
| Draba oligosperma Hook. [Rollins, 1993] | 3 | few-seeded draba or whitlow-grass |
| Draba paysonii J.F. Macbr. var. treleasii (O.E. Schulz) C.L. Hitchc. [H&C] | 1 | Payson's whitlow-grass or draba |
| Draba platycarpa Torr. & A. Gray [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | broad-pod whitlow-grass |
| Draba praealta Greene [H&C] | 1 | tall whitlow-grass or draba |
| Draba reptans (Lam.) Fernald [Rollins, 1993] | 4 | Carolina whitlow-grass |
| Draba ruaxes Payson & H. St. John [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | coast mountain whitlow-grass or draba |
| Draba stenoloba Ledeb. var. stenoloba [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | Alaska whitlow-grass |
| Draba verna L. [Rollins, 1993] | 6 | spring whitlow-grass |
| Eruca vesicaria (L.) Cav. ssp. sativa (Mill.) Thell. [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | garden rocket |
| Erucastrum gallicum (Willd.) O.E. Schulz [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | dog mustard, hairy rocket |
| Erysimum arenicola S. Watson [Rollins, 1993] | 2 | sand-dwelling wallflower |
| Erysimum capitatum (Douglas ex Hook.) Greene var. capitatum [Rollins, 1993] | 2 | rough wallflower, prairie rocket |
| Erysimum cheiranthoides L. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | wormseed wallflower, treacle mustard |
| Erysimum cheiri (L.) Crantz [Stace, 1997] | 1 | wallflower |
| Erysimum inconspicuum (S. Watson) MacMill. var. inconspicuum [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | small-flowered rocket or prairie rocket, small wallflower |
| Erysimum occidentale (S. Watson) B.L. Rob. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 2 | pale or western wallflower |
| Erysimum repandum L. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | spreading wallflower |
| Euclidium syriacum (L.) R. Br. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | Syrian mustard, euclidium |
| Halimolobos perplexa (Hend.) Rollins var. perplexa [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 2 | puzzling halimolobos |
| Halimolobos whitedii (Piper) Rollins [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 2 | whited's halimolobos or fissurewort |
| Hesperis matronalis L. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | dame's rocket, dame's violet, mother-of-the-evening |
| Hutchinsia procumbens (L.) Desv. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 6 | prostrate hutchinsia, hutchinsia, ovalpurse |
| Idahoa scapigera (Hook.) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 1 | scalepod, flatpod |
| Isatis tinctoria L. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 0 | woad, Dyer's woad |
| Lepidium campestre (L.) R. Br. [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | field peppergrass or pepperwort, field cress, pepperwort |
| Lepidium densiflorum Schrad. var. densiflorum [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 1 | prairie or common peppergrass |
| Lepidium densiflorum Schrad. var. elongatum (Rydb.) Thell. [Rollins, 1993, H&C] | 1 | elongate peppergrass |
| Lepidium densiflorum Schrad. var. macrocarpum G.A. Mulligan [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 0 | large-fruited peppergrass |
| Lepidium densiflorum Schrad. var. pubicarpum (A. Nelson) Thell. [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 1 | hairy-fruited peppergrass |
| Lepidium dictyotum A. Gray var. acutidens A. Gray [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 1 | sharp-toothed peppergrass |
| Lepidium dictyotum A. Gray var. dictyotum [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 1 | veiny or alkali peppergrass |
| Lepidium heterophyllum Benth. [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 0 | Smith's pepperwort |
| Lepidium latifolium L. [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 0 | dittander, broad-leaved pepperwort or peppergrass |
| Lepidium nitidum Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray var. nitidum [Rollins, 1993] | 1 | shining peppergrass |
| Lepidium oxycarpum Torr. & A. Gray [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 1 | sharpfruited or forked pepperwort |
| Lepidium perfoliatum L. [Rollins, 1993; H&C] | 0 | clasping peppergrass or pepperwort, yellow-flowered or clasping-leaved or round-leaved peppergrass |
| Lepidium ramosissimum A. Nelson var. bourgeauanum (Thell.) Rollins | 2 | dull peppergrass |
| Lepidium ramosissimum A. Nelson var. ramosissimum | 1 | branched peppergrass |
| Lepidium ruderale L. | 1 | narrow-leaved or roadside pepperwort |
| Lepidium sativum L. | 0 | garden cress or pepperwort |
| Lepidium virginicum L. var. medium (Greene) C.L. Hitchc. | 1 | tall western or Idaho peppergrass |
| Lepidium virginicum L. var. menziesii (DC.) C.L. Hitchc. | 1 | Menzies' or coastal peppergrass |
| Lepidium virginicum L. var. pubescens (Greene) Thell. | 0 | hairy peppergrass |
| Lesquerella douglasii S. Watson | 0 | Columbia or Douglas' bladderpod |
| Lesquerella occidentalis S. Watson ssp. occidentalis | 2 | western bladderpod |
| Lesquerella tuplashensis Rollins, K.A. Beck & F.E. Caplow [not in H&C] | 0 | white bluffs bladderpod |
| Lobularia maritima (L.) Desv. | 1 | sweet alyssum, sweet alison |
| Lunaria annua L. | 0 | honesty |
| Malcolmia africana (L.) R. Br. | 0 | african adder's-mouth or malcolmia |
| Neslia paniculata (L.) Desv. [H&C] | 0 | ball mustard |
| Phoenicaulis cheiranthoides Nutt. | 5 | daggerpod |
| Physaria alpestris Suksd. | 0 | alpine or Washington twinpod |
| Physaria didymocarpa (Hook.) A. Gray var. didymocarpa | 0 | common twinpod |
| Physaria geyeri (Hook.) A. Gray var. geyeri | 0 | Geyer's twinpod or double bladderpod |
| Physaria oregana S. Watson | 0 | Oregon twinpod |
| Polyctenium fremontii (Wats.) Greene [H&C] | 1 | combleaf |
| Raphanus raphanistrum L. | 0 | jointed charlock, wild radish |
| Raphanus sativus L. | 0 | radish, garden radish |
| Rorippa austriaca (Crantz) Besser [not in H&C] | 1 | Austrian yellowcress or field-cress |
| Rorippa columbiae (Suksd. ex B.L. Rob.) Suksd. ex T.J. Howell | 1 | Columbia yellowcress or cress |
| Rorippa curvipes Greene var. curvipes | 1 | blunt-leaved yellowcress |
| Rorippa curvipes Greene var. truncata (Jeps.) Rollins [not in H&C] | 0 | truncate yellowcress |
| Rorippa curvisiliqua (Hook.) Bessey ex Britton | 5 | western yellowcress |
| Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (L.) Hayek | 0 | watercress |
| Rorippa palustris (L.) Besser | 12 | marsh or hispid yellowcress |
| Rorippa sinuata (Nutt.) A.S. Hitchc. | 0 | spreading yellowcress |
| Rorippa sylvestris (L.) Besser | 0 | creeping yellowcress |
| Rorippa tenerrima Greene [not in H&C] | 0 | Modoc yellowcress |
| Schoenocrambe linifolia (Nutt.) Greene [H&C] | 0 | lava cress, rush mustard, flax-leaved or Salmon River plainsmustard |
| Sinapis alba L. | 1 | white mustard |
| Sinapis arvensis L. | 3 | charlock, corn or wild mustard |
| Sisymbrium altissimum L. [H&C] | 0 | tall rocket, tumble or Jim Hill mustard |
| Sisymbrium loeselii L. [H&C] | 0 | false london rocket, Loesel's tumblemustard |
| Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop. [H&C] | 2 | hedge mustard |
| Smelowskia calycina (Stephen) C.A. Mey. var. americana (Regel & Herder) W.H. Drury & Rollins | 1 | alpine or Siberian smelowskia |
| Smelowskia ovalis M.E. Jones var. ovalis | 1 | short-fruited smelowskia |
| Streptanthella longirostris (S. Watson) Rydb. | 1 | streptanthella, long-beaked fiddle mustard |
| Subularia aquatica L. ssp. americana G.A. Mulligan & Calder | 2 | awlwort |
| Teesdalia nudicaulis (L.) R. Br. | 0 | shepherd's cress |
| Thelypodium howellii S. Watson ssp. howellii | 0 | Howell's thelypody |
| Thelypodium integrifolium (Nutt.) Endl. | 1 | entire-leaved thelypody |
| Thelypodium laciniatum (Hook.) Endl. | 2 | thick-leaved or cut-leaf thelypody |
| Thelypodium milleflorum A. Nelson | 1 | many flowered thelypody |
| Thelypodium sagittatum (Nutt.) Endl. ssp. sagittatum | 2 | slender or sagittate thelypody |
| Thlaspi arvense L. | 0 | field pennycress, fanweed |
| Thlaspi montanum L. var. montanum [Rollins, 1993] | 5 | wild candytuft |
| Thlaspi perfoliatum L. | 1 | perfoliate pennycress |
| Thysanocarpus curvipes Hook. [H&C] | 2 | sand fringepod, lacepod |
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