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. The Brassicaceae are well-represented in the Gila National Forest.

Boechera fendleri (Fendler's Rockcress)
Boechera perennans (Perennial Rockcress)
Brassica juncea (Indian Mustard)
Camelina microcarpa (Little False Flax)
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepherd's Purse)
Chorispora tenella (Crossflower)
Descurainia obtusa subsp. adenophora (Blunt Tansy Mustard)
Descurainia obtusa subsp. obtusa (Blunt Tansy Mustard)
Descurainia pinnata subsp. ochroleuca (Western Tansy-Mustard)
Descurainia sophia (Flixweed)
Dimorphocarpa wislizeni (Spectacle Pod)
Draba cuneifolia (Wedgeleaf Draba)
Draba helleriana (Heller Whitlow Wort)
Draba mogollonica (Mogollon Whitlow-grass)
Eruca vesicaria (Garden Rocket)
Erysimum capitatum (Western Wallflower)
Halimolobos diffusus (Fissurewort)
Lepidium alyssoides (Mesa Pepperweed)
Lepidium draba (Hoary-cress)
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 var. gordonii (Gordon's Bladderpod)
Rorippa sinuata (Spreading Yellow Cress)
Schoenocrambe linifolia (Slimleaf Purple Mustard)
Sisymbrium altissimum (Tall Hedge Mustard)
Sisymbrium irio (London Rocket)
Streptanthus cordatus (Mountain Twistflower)
Thelypodium wrightii (Wright's Thelypodium)
Thysanocarpus curvipes (Fringe-Pod)
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