Iberis amara (annual candytuft)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, 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.

Iberis amara, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. a Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / 2021-06-09 / obs. 135121430

Iberis amara, photographed by Jan Herr — fig. b Jan Herr, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204847276

Iberis amara, photographed by Jonathan Hughes — fig. c Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 87843831

Iberis amara, photographed by William Stephens — fig. d William Stephens, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80261685

Iberis amara, photographed by Claude Kolwelter — fig. f Claude Kolwelter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44071130

Iberis amara, photographed by Tim Johnson — fig. g Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151225465

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Iberis amara, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Belgium	BGM	EUROPE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Great Britain	GRB
Italy	ITA
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 31 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.

Biauricula amara (L.) Bubani
Biauricula panduriformis Bubani
Biauricula resedifolia (Pourr. ex Timb.-Lagr.) Bubani
Crucifera iberis E.H.L.Krause
Iberis affinis Jord.
Iberis amara subsp. amara L.
Iberis amara subsp. forestieri (Jord.) Heywood
Iberis apricorum Giraudias
Iberis arvatica Jord.
Iberis bicolor Rchb.
Iberis bicorymbifera Gren. & Godr.
Iberis ceratophylla Reut.
Iberis ciliata subsp. vinetorum (Pau) Mateo & M.B.Crespo
Iberis contracta subsp. vinetorum (Pau) M.B.Crespo & Mateo
Iberis crenata Lam.
Iberis decipiens Jord.
Iberis forestieri Jord.
Iberis latifolia Pourr.
Iberis latifolia Pourr. ex Timb.-Lagr.
Iberis linifolia var. vinetorum (Pau) O.Bolòs & Vigo
Iberis martinii Timb.-Lagr.
Iberis montolivensis Timb.-Lagr.
Iberis panduriformis Pourr.
Iberis pinetorum Pau

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.