Noccaea alpestris(Jacq.) Kerguélen

WFO wfo-0001262519 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-15 / obs. 136940035
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74156762
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80852780
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. d Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80285390
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80085670
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. f Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147805650
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by carnifex
fig. g carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17859141
Noccaea alpestris, photographed by Daniel Ellehammer Larsen
fig. h Daniel Ellehammer Larsen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145183116

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Noccaea alpestris is native: Austria Austria
Native distribution of Noccaea alpestris, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE

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 8 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.

  • Noccaea crantzii F.K.Mey.
  • Thlaspi alpestre Jacq.
  • Thlaspi alpestre var. gracile Gilg & Muschl.
  • Thlaspi alpinum Crantz
  • Thlaspi alpinum subsp. alpinum
  • Thlaspi alpinum var. alpinum
  • Thlaspi montanum var. alpinum (Crantz) DC.
  • Thlaspi montanum var. alpinum Crantz

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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