Pink and Purple Crucifers

Mustard Family - Brassicaceae

Burnt Candytuft Aethionema saxatile

Native throughout most of the Mediterranean Region and northward into Central Europe. A plant of dry, stony slopes.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Flowers	Leaves	Leaves	Seed capsules

Spanish Mustard Erucaria hispanica

Despite the name, native to the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, from Greece to the Arabian Peninsula.


Habit	Flowers	Leaves	Seed capsules

Sea Rocket Cakile maritima

Native on sandy and shingle beaches throughout Europe, North Africa and western Asia.


Habit	Flowers	Leaf	Seed capsule

Annual Honesty Lunaria annua

Native in Central and southern Europe but widely introduced elsewhere.


Habit	Habit	Basal leaf	Seed capsules

Spring Rock-cress Arabis verna

Native throughout most of the Mediterranean Region. An annual of grassy and stony slopes.


Flowers	Flowers	Flowers	Flower

Sepals	Leaves	Leaves	Seed capsules

Common Aubretia Aubrieta deltoidea

Native to the mountains of Sicily, southern Greece and Turkey.


Habit	Habit	Flower

Leaves	Leaf	Seed capsules	Seed capsule

Wavy Stock Malcolmia flexuosa

Native in the southern Balkans and through western Turkey to Syria. A coastal plant with slightly fleshy leaves, hairs medifixed and fruiting pedicels thickened to the same width as the seed capsule.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Sepals	Leaf	Pedicel	Stem hairs medifixed

Hoary Stock Matthiola incana

Native to the Mediterranean coasts of Europe, but also widely grown elsewhere as a garden plant. A perennial subshrub of coastal cliffs and rocks.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Leaves	Seed capsule tip

Sea Stock Matthiola sinuata

Native in the Mediterranean Region and Atlantic coasts of Europe. A perennial or biennial with seed capsules compressed, glandular. Flowers with distinct stalks.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Leaves	Leaves

Three-horned Stock Matthiola tricuspidata

Native in the Mediterranean Region. An annual without vegetative leaf rosettes; flowers more or less stalkless, seed capsules bearing three distinct points at the tip.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Seed capsule tip

Dwarf Stock Maresia nana

Native in the Mediterranean Region and eastward to Afghanistan. A plant of sandy places, especially beaches.


Habit	Flower	Sepals	Leaf

Flora of Peloponnese An Identification Guide

Pink and Purple Crucifers

Mustard Family - Brassicaceae

Species List

Flora of Peloponnese
An Identification Guide