Brassicaceae
Alpine smelowskia
Smelowskia calycina
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Smelowskia
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Smelowskia calycinaBrassicaceae
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 芹叶荠
- English
- Alpine smelowskia
Synonyms
- Bunias altaica Schangin ex DC.
- Chrysanthemopsis koelzii Rech.f.
- Hutchinsia calycina Desv.
- Hutchinsia calycina var. pectinata (Bunge) Regel & Herder
- Hutchinsia pectinata Bunge ex Ledeb.
- Lepidium calycinum Stephan ex Willd.
- Smelowskia calycina subsp. pectinata (Bunge ex Ledeb.) D.A.German
- Smelowskia calycina var. calycina
- Smelowskia calycina var. densiflora O.E.Schulz
- Smelowskia calycina var. pectinata (Bunge) B.Fedtsch.
- Smelowskia koelzii (Rech.f.) Rech.f.
- Smelowskia pectinata (Bunge) Velichkin
- Smelowskia tianschanica Velichkin
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
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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); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.