Brassicaceae
Mountain fringepod
Thysanocarpus laciniatus
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Thysanocarpus
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Mountain fringepod
Synonyms
- Thysanocarpus curvipes var. emarginatus (Greene) Jeps.
- Thysanocarpus emarginatus Greene
- Thysanocarpus laciniatus subsp. laciniatus
- Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. affinis (Greene) Munz
- Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. emarginatus (Greene) Jeps.
- Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. eremicola Jeps.
- Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. laciniatus Nutt.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0, 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.