Capparis spinosaL.

Caper Bush

WFO wfo-0000029724 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Capparis spinosa, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. a Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 200531472
Capparis spinosa, photographed by Natalya Ivanova
fig. b Natalya Ivanova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41412948
Capparis spinosa, photographed by Kenta Nakahashi
fig. c Kenta Nakahashi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148349264
Capparis spinosa, photographed by Andra Waagmeester
fig. d Andra Waagmeester, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174046338
Capparis spinosa, photographed by Mario Bassini
fig. e Mario Bassini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83414431
Capparis spinosa, photographed by TOUROULT Julien
fig. f TOUROULT Julien, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198042127
Capparis spinosa, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28737394
Capparis spinosa, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. h Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 34769362

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Flowering n = 660 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 660 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 74 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Capparis aculeata Steud.
  • Capparis aegyptia Sieber ex C.Presl
  • Capparis aegyptia Lam.
  • Capparis atlantica Inocencio, D.Rivera, Obón & Alcaraz
  • Capparis cordifolia Lam.
  • Capparis deserti (Zohary) Täckh. & Boulos
  • Capparis elliptica Hausskn. & Bornm.
  • Capparis elliptica var. maskatensis Hausskn. & Bornm.
  • Capparis fontanesii DC.
  • Capparis herbacea Willd.
  • Capparis herbacea var. microphylla Ledeb.
  • Capparis hierosolymitana Danin
  • Capparis himalayensis Jafri
  • Capparis inermis Turra
  • Capparis leucophylla DC.
  • Capparis leucophylla var. microphylla (Ledeb.) Täckh.
  • Capparis leucophylla var. parviflora (Boiss.) Zohary
  • Capparis mariana Jacq.
  • Capparis microphylla Ledeb.
  • Capparis mucronifolia Boiss.
  • Capparis mucronifolia subsp. rosanowiana (B.Fedtsch.) Inocencio, D.Rivera, Obón & Alcaraz
  • Capparis murrayana J.Graham
  • Capparis murrayi Stewart ex Dalzell
  • Capparis napaulensis DC.

and 50 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.