Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Brassicaceae
(Mustard Family)


The Brassicaceae are mostly herbs. They typically have small flowers with four petals and six stamens, two of which are shorter than the rest (tetradynamous), as in this photo of a dissected Erysimum capitatum flower. The Brassicaceae are well-represented in the Gila National Forest.

Barbarea orthoceras (Yellow Rocket)
Boechera fendleri (Fendler's Rockcress)
Brassica juncea (Indian Mustard)
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepherd's Purse)
Chorispora tenella (Crossflower)
Descurainia adenophora (Blunt Tansy Mustard-glandular)
Descurainia obtusa (Blunt Tansy Mustard)
Descurainia pinnata subsp. ochroleuca (Western Tansy-Mustard)
Descurainia sophia (Flixweed)
Dimorphocarpa wislizeni (Spectacle Pod)
Draba helleriana (Heller Whitlow Wort)
Draba mogollonica (Mogollon Whitlow-grass)
Eruca vesicaria (Garden Rocket)
Erysimum capitatum (Western Wallflower)
Erysimum inconspicuum (Wallflower)
Halimolobos diffusa (Fissurewort)
Hesperidanthus linearifolius (Slim Leaf Plains Mustard)
Lepidium alyssoides (Mesa Pepperweed)
Lepidium draba (Hoary-cress)
Lepidium lasiocarpum var. wrightii (Wright's Pepperweed)
Lepidium thurberi (Thurber's Pepperweed)
Lepidium virginicum (Poor Man's Pepperweed)
Nasturtium officinale (Watercress)
Noccaea fendleri (Wild Candytuft)
Pennellia micrantha (Mountain Thelypody)
Physaria fendleri (Fendler Bladderpod)
Physaria gooddingii (Goodding's Bladderpod)
Physaria gordonii (Gordon's Bladderpod)
Rorippa sinuata (Spreading Yellow Cress)
Sisymbrium altissimum (Tall Hedge Mustard)
Sisymbrium irio (London Rocket)
Streptanthus carinatus subsp. arizonicus (Arizona Jewel Flower)
Thelypodium wrightii (Wright's Thelypodium)
Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress)
Thysanocarpus curvipes (Fringe-Pod)
Tomostima cuneifolia (Wedgeleaf Draba)
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