Matthiola parviflora
Habit
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Matthiola
Species:
M. parviflora
Binomial name
Matthiola parviflora
Synonyms[1]
  • Cheiranthus parviflorus Schousb.
  • Hesperis micrantha Kuntze
  • Hesperis parviflora (Schousb.) Poir.

Matthiola parviflora, the smallflower stock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Israel and Jordan.[1][2] It has been discovered invading the Sonoran Desert, beginning around Tucson, Arizona.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Matthiola parviflora (Schousb.) W.T.Aiton". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Matthiola Parviflora, Smallflower Stock". americansouthwest.net. The American Southwest. 28 December 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Horst, Jonathan L.; Kimball, Sarah; Becerra, Judith X.; Noge, Koji; Venable, D. Lawrence (2014). "Documenting the early stages of invasion of Matthiola parviflora and predicting its spread in North America". The Southwestern Naturalist. 59: 47–55. doi:10.1894/F07-FMO-13.1.


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