Hesperis matronalisL.

dame's rocket

WFO wfo-0000721077 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Mila C.
fig. a Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205844543
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. b Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205577974
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. c Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205233676
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. d Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205222852
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205685785
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205534823
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. g John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205235581
Hesperis matronalis, photographed by Kailey Alderfer
fig. h Kailey Alderfer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204911523

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Flowering n = 10,792 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 10,792 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 52 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.

  • Antoniana sylvestris Bubani
  • Crucifera matronalis E.H.L.Krause
  • Deilosma alpina Fuss
  • Deilosma glabra Fuss
  • Deilosma inodora Fuss
  • Deilosma kladnii Fuss
  • Deilosma matronalis Andrz. ex DC.
  • Deilosma nivea Fuss
  • Deilosma runcinata Fuss
  • Deilosma sibirica Andrz. ex DC.
  • Hesperis adenosepala Borbás
  • Hesperis adzharica Tzvelev
  • Hesperis alba Mill.
  • Hesperis albiflora Schur
  • Hesperis alpina Schur
  • Hesperis bituminosa Willd.
  • Hesperis candida Kit.
  • Hesperis carpatica Zapał.
  • Hesperis caucasica Rupr.
  • Hesperis cladotricha Borbás
  • Hesperis euganea Marsili ex Ten.
  • Hesperis grandiflora Sims
  • Hesperis heterophylla Ten.
  • Hesperis hortensis Pers. ex Steud.

and 28 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.