Cabbage family : BRASSICACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Blennodia canescens Wild Stock 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
Lepidium bonariense Argentine Pepperweed Sydney, January 2012	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 including:

PIERIDAE Pieris rapae

and Moths, from various families and subfamlies, including:

ACRONICTINAE Proteuxoa hypochalchis	ARCTIINAE Ardices curvata	EVERGESTINAE Crocidolomia pavonana	GLAPHYRIINAE Hellula hydralis
HELIOTHINAE Heliothis punctifera	LYMANTRIINAE Orgyia australis	NOORDINAE Noorda blitealis	NOCTUINAE Agrotis infusa

PLUSIINAE Chrysodeixis subsidens

PLUTELLIDAE Plutella xylostella

TORTRICINAE Epiphyas postvittana