
mustard family
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae or Cruciferae is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, some shrubs, with simple, although sometimes deeply incised, alternatingly set leaves without stipules or in leaf rosettes, with terminal inflorescences without bracts, containing flowers with four free sepals, four free alternating petals, two short and four longer free stamens, and a fruit with seeds in rows, divided by...
10 branches of this family, most-observed first

Brassicoideae
subfamilyBrassicoideae

Aethionemoideae
subfamilyAethionemoideae

Hedinia
genusHedinia

Lonchophora
genusLonchophora
Plagioloba
genusPlagioloba
Bifurcipilus
genusBifurcipilus
Goerkemia
genusGoerkemia
Gynophorea
genusGynophorea
Lycocarpus
genusLycocarpus
Machaerophorus
genusMachaerophorus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47204.