Rorippa sessiliflora(Nutt.) Hitchc.

stalkless yellowcress

WFO wfo-0001216776 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. a Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-04-30 / obs. 70466701
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. b Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95671118
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Jody Shugart
fig. c Jody Shugart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169130728
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. d Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100624026
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. e Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95671149
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Jody Shugart
fig. f Jody Shugart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182839109
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Ryan Donnelly
fig. g Ryan Donnelly, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100624018
Rorippa sessiliflora, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. h Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 70466714

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Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Rorippa sessiliflora is native: Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMassachusettsMississippiMissouriNebraskaNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasVirginiaWisconsin District of Columbia
Native distribution of Rorippa sessiliflora, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
South Dakota SDA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Wisconsin WIS

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 5 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.

  • Nasturtium limosum Nutt.
  • Nasturtium sessiliflorum Nutt.
  • Radicula limosa (Nutt.) Greene
  • Radicula sessiflora (Nutt.) Greene
  • Radicula sessiliflora Greene

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.