Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

A quick guide to aliens recorded as naturalized on the Cape Peninsula

As guides can only do 500 species the list stops in "Solanum" and 80 species are omitted (this is our short list: there are over 800 species known at present).

All 500

land cress ¹
Barbarea verna

Rapeseed ²
Brassica napus

Cabbage ³
Brassica oleracea

Saharan mustard ⁴
Brassica tournefortii

Shepherd's-purse ⁵
Capsella bursa-pastoris

hairy bittercress ⁶
Cardamine hirsuta

Cleome monophylla

Coronopus didymus

annual wall-rocket ⁷
Diplotaxis muralis

Hairy Rocket ⁸
Erucastrum gallicum

Virginia pepperweed ⁹
Lepidium virginicum

sweet alyssum ¹⁰
Lobularia maritima

Virginia Stock ¹¹
Malcolmia maritima

ball mustard ¹²
Neslia paniculata

Jointed Charlock ¹³
Raphanus raphanistrum

annual bastard cabbage ¹⁴
Rapistrum rugosum

yellow mignonette ¹⁵
Reseda lutea

watercress ¹⁶
Nasturtium officinale

White Mustard ¹⁷
Sinapis alba

Wild Mustard ¹⁸
Sinapis arvensis

Hedge mustard ¹⁹
Sisymbrium officinale

eastern rocket ⁵
Sisymbrium orientale

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Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

land cress 1 Barbarea verna

Rapeseed 2 Brassica napus

Cabbage 3 Brassica oleracea

Saharan mustard 4 Brassica tournefortii

Shepherd's-purse 5 Capsella bursa-pastoris

hairy bittercress 6 Cardamine hirsuta

Cleome monophylla

Coronopus didymus

annual wall-rocket 7 Diplotaxis muralis

Hairy Rocket 8 Erucastrum gallicum

Virginia pepperweed 9 Lepidium virginicum

sweet alyssum 10 Lobularia maritima

Virginia Stock 11 Malcolmia maritima

ball mustard 12 Neslia paniculata

Jointed Charlock 13 Raphanus raphanistrum

annual bastard cabbage 14 Rapistrum rugosum

yellow mignonette 15 Reseda lutea

watercress 16 Nasturtium officinale

White Mustard 17 Sinapis alba

Wild Mustard 18 Sinapis arvensis

Hedge mustard 19 Sisymbrium officinale

eastern rocket 5 Sisymbrium orientale