Teesdalia coronopifolia(J.P.Bergeret) Thell.

lesser shepherdscress

WFO wfo-0000411010 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. a Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-23 / obs. 190167654
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180894094
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. c Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3226156
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. d Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190167713
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180894102
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by scolym
fig. f scolym, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190010536
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. g Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190155749
Teesdalia coronopifolia, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. h Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189301074

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Teesdalia coronopifolia is native: Algeria, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaTürkiyeBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe MadeiraSardegna
Native distribution of Teesdalia coronopifolia, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Türkiye TUR

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 9 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.

  • Guepinia coronopifolia (Bergeret) Soják
  • Guepinia lepidium Desv.
  • Guepinia lepidium DC.
  • Teesdalia coronopifolia var. coronopifolia Thell.
  • Teesdalia coronopifolia var. dubia Maire
  • Teesdalia falciformis Merino
  • Teesdalia lepidium (DC.) DC.
  • Teesdalia regularis Sm.
  • Thlaspi coronopifolium J.P.Bergeret ex Steud.

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.

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