Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Cutleaf thelypody

Thelypodium laciniatum

Also called Cut Leaved Thelypody, Feathery Thelypodium, Thick Leaved Thelypody

Cutleaf thelypody
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 4.0

Cutleaf thelypody is a biennial wildflower in the mustard family, native to dry rocky slopes of western North America. It is a native wild plant rather than a common garden or houseplant, and it grows best in full sun with lean, well-drained soil.

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly; it tolerates dry conditions once established and dislikes soggy soil.
Soil
Lean, gritty, well-drained soil or rocky mineral soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool temperate to warm dry conditions; hardy in cold winters once established.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. British Columbia to California
Climate
temperate

About

Thelypodium laciniatum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name cutleaf thelypody. It is native to western North America, particularly the Great Basin and surrounding plateau and foothill habitat, where it grows on dry rocky cliffs and hillsides in sagebrush and scrub, usually below 2,400 metres (8,000 ft) elevation.

Other Thelypodium plants

Shortpod thelypody · Crisped thelypody · World thelypody · Nodding thelypody · Howell's thelypody · Entireleaved thelypody · Droopflower thelypody · Manyflower thelypody · Slenderpetal thelypody · Thelypody

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thelypodium laciniatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…