Tropaeolum majusL.

garden nasturtium

WFO wfo-0000459744 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 204040887
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. b Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202768721
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. c Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198808547
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205866812
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Franco Arenas
fig. e Franco Arenas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203559529
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Willi Seiler
fig. f Willi Seiler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204305100
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. g Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200327943
Tropaeolum majus, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. h Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200338762

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Flowering n = 3,192 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,192 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 34 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.

  • Cardamindum majus (L.) Moench
  • Nasturtium indicum Garsault
  • Tropaeolum atrosanguineum Gordon
  • Tropaeolum chaixianum É.Morren
  • Tropaeolum compactum H.Boyce ex J.Dix
  • Tropaeolum elatum Salisb.
  • Tropaeolum hortense Sparre
  • Tropaeolum hybridum L.
  • Tropaeolum majus unranked flore-purpurea Van Houtte
  • Tropaeolum majus var. brunneum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. carneum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. coccineum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. coffeinum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. haageanum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. luteum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. plenum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. regelianum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. scheuermannii Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. schillingii Alef.
  • Tropaeolum majus var. sordidum Alef.
  • Tropaeolum naudinii É.Morren
  • Tropaeolum pinnatum Andrews
  • Tropaeolum quinquelobum Bergius
  • Tropaeolum repandifolium Stokes

and 10 more.

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.

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