Nasturtium is a genus of a small number of plant species in the family Brassicaceae commonly known as watercress or yellowcress. The best known species are the edible Nasturtium officinale and Nasturtium microphyllum. Nasturtium was previously synonymised with Rorippa, but molecular evidence supports its maintenance as a distinct genus more closely related to Cardamine than to Rorippasensu stricto.
Cardamine is a large genus of flowering plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, known as bittercresses and toothworts. It contains more than 200 species of annuals and perennials. Species in this genus can be found in diverse habitats worldwide, except the Antarctic. The name Cardamine is derived from the Greek kardaminē, water cress, from kardamon, pepper grass.
Draba is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, commonly known as whitlow-grasses.
Streptanthus is a genus of plants within the family Brassicaceae. There are 58 known species within the genus Streptanthus, distributed through the western and south-central United States and northern Mexico. The common names for this genus are twistflower and jewelflower. Twenty-four of the species and eleven lesser taxa occur in California, thirty-two of which are California endemics; seventeen of these California taxa are classified as rare plants.
Turritis glabra, commonly known as tower rockcress or tower mustard, is a tall, slim, grey-green plant with small creamy flowers at the top of the stem. It usually grows on poor chalky or sandy soils, in open situations. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is widespread in North America where it is also probably native. It can be found in many other parts of the world as an introduced species.
Reed Clark Rollins was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Organization for Tropical Studies. He was also the second president of each of them.
Hesperidanthus suffrutescens is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family. Its synonyms include Glaucocarpum suffrutescens. When placed in the genus Glaucocarpum, it was the only species. It is a rare species known by the common names toad-flax cress, shrubby reed-mustard, Uinta Basin waxfruit and waxfruit mustard. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Duchesne and Uintah Counties. It is threatened by habitat degradation and destruction. It is federally listed as an endangered species of the United States.
Eutrema is a genus of flowering plants of the family Brassicaceae, native to the Holarctic. Its best known member is wasabi, Eutrema japonicum. The name comes from the Greek εὐ- (eu-) 'well' et τρῆμα (trêma) 'hole', because of a hole in the septum of the fruit.
Smelowskia, sometimes called false candytufts, is a genus of flowering plants in the crucifer family Brassicaceae, native to mountains and arctic regions of Asia and western North America. They may or may not be of Beringian origin.
Thelypodiopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Chaunanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Mancoa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Menonvillea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Pennellia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Romanschulzia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Hesperidanthus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to southwestern and south central United States and Mexico. The genus was established by Per Axel Rydberg in 1907.
Mostacillastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. It includes 31 species native to the Americas, including from Arizona and Texas to central Mexico, Venezuela, Haiti, and from Peru to southern Argentina.
