Descurainia adenophora(Wooton & Standl.) O.E.Schulz

WFO wfo-0000641826 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Descurainia adenophora, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. a Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / 2016-08-14 / obs. 12535877
Descurainia adenophora, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. b Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12535878
Descurainia adenophora, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. c Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12535879
Descurainia adenophora, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. d Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12535880
Descurainia adenophora, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. e Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12535881
Descurainia adenophora, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. f Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / obs. 12535882

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03182318
Filed as
Descurainia adenophora (Wooton & Standl.) O.E.Schulz
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
L. C. Hinckley 1936-07-28
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Descurainia adenophora is native: Arizona, California, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas ArizonaCaliforniaMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestNevadaNew MexicoTexas
Native distribution of Descurainia adenophora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Nevada NEV
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 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.

  • Descurainia obtusa subsp. adenophora (Wooton & Standl.) Detling
  • Descurainia obtusa var. adenophora (Wooton & Standl.) Kearney & Peebles
  • Sophia adenophora Wooton & Standl.

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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