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Hugueninia tanacetifolia

Descurainia tanacetifolia

Also called Tansey Leaved Rocket, Tansy Leaved Rocket

Hugueninia tanacetifolia
Photo: Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
SW. Alps
Climate
temperate

About

Hugueninia tanacetifolia, the tansy-leaved rocket, is a species of flowering plant in the monotypic genus Hugueninia belonging to the family Brassicaceae. Sometimes it is placed in genus Sisymbrium. Molecular genetic studies have shown it to be most closely related to, and possibly ancestral to the Canary Islands endemic species within the genus Descurainia.

Where it grows

Tansy-leaved rocket is native to mountains of the Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Pyrenees and the southwestern Alps.

Other Descurainia plants

Descurainia bourgaeana · Sierra tansymustard · Mountain tansymustard · Paradise tansymustard · Western tansymustard · Herb sophia · Wyoming Tansy Mustard · Tansymustard

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hugueninia tanacetifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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