Matthiola parviflora

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Matthiola parviflora, photographed by Fluff Berger — fig. b Fluff Berger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38033270

Matthiola parviflora, photographed by Eliseo D Moreno — fig. c Eliseo D Moreno, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31148745

Matthiola parviflora, photographed by CK2AZ — fig. f CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6246628

Matthiola parviflora, photographed by monkeyjodey — fig. h monkeyjodey, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187696147

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Native distribution of Matthiola parviflora, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Canary Is.	CNY
Egypt	EGY
Libya	LBY
Madeira	MDR
Morocco	MOR
Tunisia	TUN
Portugal	POR	EUROPE
Spain	SPA
Palestine	PAL	ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 112 in flower of 121 examined

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97%

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Proportion of examined Matthiola parviflora in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	18	19	95%	75% to 99%
Feb	31	32	97%	84% to 99%
Mar	57	59	97%	88% to 99%
Apr	6	10	60%	31% to 83%
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Matthiola parviflora 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. 112 of 121 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 3 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.

Cheiranthus parviflorus Schousb.
Hesperis micrantha Kuntze
Hesperis parviflora (Schousb.) Poir.

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.
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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