Lapsana communis (nipplewort)

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Lapsana communis, photographed by Henry Miller — fig. a Henry Miller, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205436220

Lapsana communis, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205528735

Lapsana communis, photographed by Andreas Stiller — fig. d Andreas Stiller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205137649

Lapsana communis, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas — fig. e Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205477636

Lapsana communis, photographed by Pavel Kacl — fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205367604

Lapsana communis, photographed by carnifex — fig. g carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205273965

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Flowering n = 3,431 observations

254

1411

741

270

155

118

Flowering observations of Lapsana communis by month
Month	Observations
Jan	97
Feb	24
Mar	43
Apr	97
May	254
Jun	1411
Jul	741
Aug	270
Sep	155
Oct	155
Nov	118
Dec	66

Peak flowering in Jun, from 3,431 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 34 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.

Lapsana adenophora Boiss.
Lapsana aipetriensis Vassilcz.
Lapsana alpina Boiss. & Balansa
Lapsana cancellata Borbás
Lapsana cancellata var. adenoclados Borbás
Lapsana cancellata var. cancellata
Lapsana cappadocica Bornm.
Lapsana cassia Boiss.
Lapsana communis subsp. pubescens (Hornem.) Arcang.
Lapsana communis subsp. ramosissima (Boiss.) Rech.f.
Lapsana communis var. aurantia Yıld.
Lapsana communis var. crispa (Willd.) Pers.
Lapsana communis var. glandulosa Wierzb.
Lapsana communis var. glandulosa Freyn
Lapsana communis var. glandulosopilosa Schur
Lapsana communis var. hirsuta Peterm.
Lapsana communis var. hirta Ten.
Lapsana crispa Willd.
Lapsana glandulifera Cass.
Lapsana glandulosa (Freyn) Klokov
Lapsana grandiflora M.Bieb.
Lapsana grandiflora f. grandiflora
Lapsana grandiflora f. pinnatisecta Sommier & Levier
Lapsana grandiflora var. grandiflora

and 10 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.

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.