Descurainia

Accepted species 43 Documented here 19 Family Brassicaceae

Accepted species 43 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl 830 documented
Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton 415 documented
Descurainia erodiifolia (Phil.) Reiche 32 documented
Descurainia incisa (Engelm.) Britton 24 documented
Descurainia sophioides (Fisch.) O.E.Schulz 19 documented
Descurainia bourgaeana (E.Fourn.) Webb ex O.E.Schulz 18 documented
Descurainia millefolia (Jacq.) Webb & Berthel. 16 documented
Descurainia incana (Bernh. ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Dorn 14 documented
Descurainia californica (A.Gray) O.E.Schulz 13 documented
Descurainia gilva Svent. 13 documented
Descurainia pimpinellifolia (Barnéoud) O.E.Schulz 12 documented
Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E.Schulz 12 documented
Descurainia tanacetifolia (L.) Prantl 10 documented
Descurainia longepedicellata (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz 9 documented
Descurainia adenophora (Wooton & Standl.) O.E.Schulz 6 documented
Descurainia obtusa (Greene) O.E.Schulz 5 documented
Descurainia lemsii Bramwell 3 documented
Descurainia myriophylla (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) R.E.Fr. 3 documented
Descurainia streptocarpa (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz 3 documented
Descurainia depressa Reiche 2 below the evidence gate
Descurainia nuttallii O.E.Schulz 2 below the evidence gate
Descurainia paradisa O.E.Schulz 2 below the evidence gate
Descurainia antarctica (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia artemisioides Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia athrocarpa (A.Gray) O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia bourgeauana (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia brevisiliqua (Detling) Al-Shehbaz & Goodson 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia browniae R.P.McNeill 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia canoensis Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia cleefii Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia gonzalezii Svent. 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia hartwegiana (E.Fourn.) Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia impatiens O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia kenheilii Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia kochii O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia lasisiliqua O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia nelsonii (Rydb.) Al-Shehbaz & Goodson 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia stricta Reiche 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia torulosa Rollins 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia tugayi Yıld. 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia verlettii O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia virletii (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Descurainia virletii E.Fourn. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.