The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·75389SpeciesPlantae5,096 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›Mustards, Capers, and Allies
  6. ›mustard family
  7. ›Brassicoideae
  8. ›Arabodae
  9. ›Alysseae
  10. ›Alyssum
desert madwort
Plate 1 of 8. (c) Jim Morefield, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jim Morefield · via iNaturalist

desert madwort

Alyssum desertorum

Alyssum desertorum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name desert madwort. It is native to Europe and Asia, and it is found in parts of western North America as an introduced species and sometimes a weed. This is a hairy annual herb producing upright stems up to about 20 centimeters tall. It produces small yellowish flowers and round, notched fruits a few millimeters long. The seeds are winged...

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Alyssum desertorum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 75389.