Brassicaceae
Desert madwort
Alyssum turkestanicum
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Alyssum
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Common names
By language (16)
- Arabic
- أليس صحراوي, أليس تركستاني
- arz
- اليس صحراوى
- Belarusian
- Бурачок пустэльны, Бурачок стэпавы
- Bulgarian
- Пустинен игловръх
- Chinese
- 庭荠, 庭薺, 小庭荠
- Czech
- Tařinka stepní
- English
- Desert madwort
- Estonian
- Liiv-kilbirohi
- Finnish
- Pikkukilpiruoho
- German
- Steppen-Steinkraut
- Latvian
- Tuksneša alise, A.desertorum
- Macedonian
- Пустински игловрв
- Polish
- Smagliczka drobna
- Russian
- Бурачок пустынный, Бурачок степной
- Swedish
- Stäppdådra
- Ukrainian
- Бурачок пустельний
Synonyms
- Alyssum afghanicum Rech.f.
- Alyssum desertorum Stapf
- Alyssum desertorum var. desertorum Stapf
- Alyssum desertorum var. himalayensis T.R.Dudley
- Alyssum desertorum var. prostratum T.R.Dudley
- Alyssum minimum Willd.
- Alyssum sartorii Heldr. ex Maire & Petitm.
- Alyssum turkestanicum var. desertorum (Stapf) Botsch.
- Alyssum vindobonense Beck
- Crucifera psilonema E.H.L.Krause
- Psilonema minimum Schur
Flowers
- In flower
- April to May (from 159 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: David Gorsline, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Indio Brown, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Evgeniya, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Micheal Tuchband, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.