Sisymbrella aspera(L.) Spach

WFO wfo-0000432550 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-24 / obs. 158146354
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115956040
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. c Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36335920
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. d Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158146438
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. e Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115963542
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. f Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36336023
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Denis Bastianelli
fig. g Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164015670
Sisymbrella aspera, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. h Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116201390

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Sisymbrella aspera is native: Algeria, Morocco, France, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoFrancePortugalSpain
Native distribution of Sisymbrella aspera, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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 23 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.

  • Cardamine aspera Bubani
  • Cardamine laevigata (Willd.) Bubani
  • Nasturtium asperum Boiss.
  • Nasturtium boissieri Coss.
  • Nasturtium laevigatum (Willd.) Sennen
  • Nasturtium munbyanum Boiss. & Reut.
  • Rorippa aspera (L.) Maire
  • Rorippa aspera subsp. aspera Maire
  • Rorippa aspera subsp. boissieri (Coss.) Maire
  • Rorippa aspera subsp. munbyana (Boiss. & Reut.) Maire
  • Rorippa aspera subsp. praeterita (Heyw.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Rorippa boissieri (Coss.) Maire
  • Rorippa munbyana (Boiss.) Maire
  • Rorippa pseudoboissieri (Degen) Maire
  • Sisymbrella aspera subsp. boissieri (Coss.) Heywood
  • Sisymbrella aspera subsp. pseudoboissieri (Degen) Heywood
  • Sisymbrella boissieri O.E.Schulz
  • Sisymbrella pseudoboissieri (Degen ex Hervier) O.E.Schulz
  • Sisymbrium aspera L.
  • Sisymbrium asperum L.
  • Sisymbrium boissieri Nyman
  • Sisymbrium laevigatum Willd.
  • Sisymbrium pseudoboissieri Degen

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.

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.