Cabbage family

Brassicaceae in Australia

DILLENIIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Christine Ashe

(updated 28 December 2009)

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Flowers in Australia

Blennodia canescens Chinese Broccoli Lake Eyre Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Brassica alboglabra Chinese Broccoli Sydney, June 2006	Brassica botrytis Cauliflower Sydney, June 2006	Brassica calabrese Green Broccoli Sydney, August 2006
Brassica chinensis Bok Choy Sydney, August 2006	Brassica italica Purple Broccoli Sydney, August 2006	Brassica napus Rapeseed, Canola Sydney, August 2006	Brassica parachinensis Choy Sum Sydney, August 2006
Brassica pekinensis Chinese Cabbage Sydney, August 2006	Brassica rapa Turnips Sydney, August 2006	Capsella bursa-pastoris Shepherds Purse Sydney, August 2006	Cardamine hirsuta Bittercress Sydney, August 2006
Diplotaxis tenuifolia Sand Rocket Wyee, February 2007	Erysimum cheiri Wallflowers Sydney, November 2006	Hesperis matronalis Dame's Rocket Sydney, August 2006	Iberis sempervirens Candytuft Sydney, October 2008
Lobularia maritimum Sweet Alyssum Sydney, August 2006	Lunaria annua Annual Honesty Melbourne, December 2007	Matthiola incana Stocks Sydney, August 2006	Nasturtium officinale Watercress Sydney, August 2007

Raphanus daikon Chinese Radish Sydney, August 2006

Raphanus sativus Radish Sydney, August 2006

Tropaeolum majus Nasturtium Sydney, August 2006

The plants in Brassicaceae are preferred foodplants of some Australian Butterflies and Moths, including:

Pieris rapae	Plutella xylostella	Leuroperna sera	Crocidolomia pavonana	Hellula hydralis
Hellula undalis	Proteuxoa hypochalchis	Neumichtis nigerrima	Spodoptera exigua	Spodoptera litura
Diarsia intermixta	Agrotis infusa	Agrotis ipsilon	Chrysodeixis subsidens	Epiphyas postvittana

Proteuxoa hydraecioides