List of Brassicaceae genera

There are around 350 genera in the plant family Brassicaceae. The type genus is Brassica (cabbage and mustards). Genera with a large number of species are Alyssum (madworts), Arabis (rockcresses), Cardamine (bittercresses), Draba (whitlow-grasses), Erysimum (wallflowers), Heliophila, Lepidium (pepperworts), Noccaea, Odontarrhena, Physaria (bladderpods), and Rorippa (yellowcresses).

The following list includes the genera that are accepted by Plants of the World Online. Other sources include the Update on the Brassicaceae species checklist or v1.3 of BrassiBase (as accessed in late 2021).

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