Cabbage family (Cruciferae (Brassicaceae))

Flowers in this family have 4 petals arranged in the shape of a cross, giving rise to the original Latin name of Cruciferae. Many garden vegetables (cabbages, radish, turnip, kale, rocket, cress, mustard) are in this family.

List of flowers currently featured in the Cabbage family

Hedge Mustard Shepherd's Purse Charlock Wild Turnip Rape Wild Radish Winter-cress
Hedge Mustard
Sisimbryum officinale 		Shepherd's Purse
Capsella bursa-pastoris 		Charlock
Sinapsis arvensis 		Wild Turnip
Brassica rapa 		Rape
Brassica napus 		Wild Radish
Raphanus raphanistrum 		Winter-cress
Barbarea vulgaris


Medium-flowered Winter-cress Danish Scurvygrass Cuckooflower Dame's-violet Hairy Bitter-cress Wavy Bitter-cress Narrow-leaved Bitter-cress
Medium-flowered Winter-cress
Barbarea intermedia 		Danish Scurvygrass
Cochlearia danica 		Cuckooflower
Cardamine pratensis 		Dame's-violet
Hesperis matronalis 		Hairy Bitter-cress
Cardamine hirsuta 		Wavy Bitter-cress
Cardamine flexuosa 		Narrow-leaved Bitter-cress
Cardamine impatiens


Large Bitter-cress Garlic Mustard Water-cress Narrow-fruited Water-cress Thale Cress Common Whitlowgrass
Large Bitter-cress
Cardamine amara 		Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata 		Water-cress
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum 		Narrow-fruited Water-cress
Rorippa microphylla 		Thale Cress
Arabidopsis thaliana 		Common Whitlowgrass
Erophila verna


Sea Kale Horse-radish Sea Rocket Honesty Hoary Cress
Sea Kale
Crambe maritima 		Horse-radish
Armoracia rusticana 		Sea Rocket
Cakile maritima 		Honesty
Lunaria annua 		Hoary Cress
Lepidium draba





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