Tropaeolum minusL.

dwarf nasturtium

WFO wfo-0001142906 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Tropaeolum minus, photographed by Manuel Roncal
fig. a Manuel Roncal, CC0 1.0 / 2021-06-10 / obs. 178515615
Tropaeolum minus, photographed by Manuel Roncal
fig. b Manuel Roncal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 178515589
Tropaeolum minus, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. c Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16275428
Tropaeolum minus, photographed by Stefano Menchetti
fig. d Stefano Menchetti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184141907

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02059567
Filed as
Tropaeolum minus L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
G. V. Nash 1898-09-14
Origin
US
The sheet
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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Tropaeolum minus is native: Ecuador, Peru EcuadorPeru
Native distribution of Tropaeolum minus, 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
Ecuador ECU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Peru PER

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 8 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 minus (L.) Moench
  • Tropaeolum dentatifolium Stokes
  • Tropaeolum minus var. brunneum Vilm.
  • Tropaeolum minus var. coccineum Vilm.
  • Tropaeolum minus var. schillingii Vilm.
  • Tropaeolum minus var. tompouce Vilm.
  • Tropaeolum pulchellum Salisb.
  • Trophaeum minus (L.) Kuntze

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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