Lepidium cartilagineum(J.Mayer) Thell.

WFO wfo-0000358286 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-18 / obs. 158251572
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. b Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158418443
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by Michael Andresek
fig. c Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170721446
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by nicoweg
fig. d nicoweg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131304379
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. e Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124217556
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. f Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123072720
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. g Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115076931
Lepidium cartilagineum, photographed by David Sandler
fig. h David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116175691

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Lepidium cartilagineum is native: Afghanistan, Altay, Buryatiya, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Palestine, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, Austria, East European Russia, Germany, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AfghanistanAltayBuryatiyaInner MongoliaIranKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskLebanon-SyriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusPalestineTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangPakistanAustriaEast European RussiaGermanyHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Lepidium cartilagineum, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Buryatiya BRY
Inner Mongolia CHI
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Austria AUT EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL

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 57 in flower of 87 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Lepidium cartilagineum 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. 57 of 87 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 13 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.

  • Cardaria crassifolia Spach
  • Lepidium bornmuelleranum Thell.
  • Lepidium borysthenicum Kleopow
  • Lepidium cartilagineum subsp. cartilagineum Thell.
  • Lepidium cartilagineum subsp. crassifolium (Waldst. & Kit.) Thell.
  • Lepidium crassifolium Waldst. & Kit.
  • Lepidium crenatifolium Boiss. & Balansa
  • Lepidium kabulicum Rech.f.
  • Lepidium pachypodum Hausskn.
  • Lepidium syvaschicum Kleopow
  • Nasturtium crassifolium Kuntze
  • Nasturtium crenatifolium (Boiss. & Balansa) Kuntze
  • Thlaspi cartilagineum J.Mayer

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.

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