Brassicaceae
Westwater tumblemustard
Thelypodiopsis elegans
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Thelypodiopsis
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Westwater tumblemustard
Synonyms
- Sisymbrium elegans Payson
- Streptanthus wyomingensis A.Nelson
- Thelypodiopsis bakeri (Greene) Rydb.
- Thelypodiopsis wyomingensis Rydb.
- Thelypodium bakeri Greene
- Thelypodium elegans M.E.Jones
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual, Biennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA, CC BY 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); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.