Lepidium campestre(L.) W.T.Aiton

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WFO wfo-0000358297 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lepidium campestre, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. a Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205625075
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205273768
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Naomi Cappuccino
fig. c Naomi Cappuccino, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203691192
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Randal
fig. d Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202565736
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Jonathan Kade
fig. e Jonathan Kade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202068116
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Karen Fry
fig. f Karen Fry, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201046165
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. g Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200860116
Lepidium campestre, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199553884

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Lepidium campestre is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Lepidium campestre, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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.

Flowering 367 in flower of 528 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Lepidium campestre observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 367 of 528 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Coronopus campestris (L.) J.St.-Hil.
  • Crucifera lepidium E.H.L.Krause
  • Iberis campestris (L.) Wallr.
  • Lasioptera campestris Andrz. ex DC.
  • Lepia accedens (Jord.) Fourr.
  • Lepia campestris (L.) Desv.
  • Lepia campicola Fourr.
  • Lepia errabunda Fourr.
  • Lepidium accedens Jord.
  • Lepidium campicola Jord.
  • Lepidium denticulatum Sennen
  • Lepidium errabundum Jord.
  • Lepidium vagum Jord.
  • Neolepia campestris (L.) W.A.Weber
  • Thlaspi campestre L.
  • Thlaspi hirsutum Lam.
  • Thlaspi vulgatius Garsault
  • Thlaspi vulgatum Roucell

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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