Rorippa teres(Michx.) Stuckey

southern marsh yellowcress

WFO wfo-0001217494 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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 teres, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-27 / obs. 117921057
Rorippa teres, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. b Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188643790
Rorippa teres, photographed by Claire Herzog
fig. c Claire Herzog, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177809564
Rorippa teres, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117921175
Rorippa teres, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. e Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30601432
Rorippa teres, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. f Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188643816
Rorippa teres, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. g Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30601456
Rorippa teres, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. h Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188643851

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Rorippa teres is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Honduras, Nicaragua AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SouthwestMississippiNew MexicoNorth CarolinaOklahomaSouth CarolinaTexasHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Rorippa teres, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
New Mexico NWM
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Honduras HON SOUTHERN AMERICA
Nicaragua NIC

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 17 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.

  • Brachiolobos tanacetifolius Link
  • Cardamine indica var. tanacetifolia (DC.) Kuntze
  • Cardamine teres Michx.
  • Erysimum walteri (Elliott) Eaton
  • Nasturtium micropetalum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Nasturtium obtusum Nutt.
  • Nasturtium palustre var. tanacetifolium (Walter) DC.
  • Nasturtium tanacetifolium (DC.) Hook. & Arn.
  • Nasturtium tanacetifolium var. obtusum (Nutt.) Alph.Wood
  • Nasturtium walteri Alph.Wood
  • Radicula obtusa var. sphaerocarpum B.L.Rob.
  • Rorippa obtusa (Nutt.) Britton
  • Rorippa teres var. rollinsii Stuckey
  • Rorippa teres var. teres Stuckey
  • Rorippa walteri C.Mohr
  • Sisymbrium teres Torr. & A.Gray
  • Sisymbrium walteri Elliott

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.