Smelowskia

Smelowskia
Smelowskia calycina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Smelowskia
C.A.Mey.
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Chrysanthemopsis Rech.f.
  • Ermania Cham., Linnaea
  • Ermania Cham. ex Botsch.,
  • Gorodkovia Botsch. & Karav.
  • Hediniopsis Botsch. & V.V.Petrovsky
  • Redowskia Cham. & Schltdl.</sma
  • Sinosophiopsis Al-Shehbaz
  • Sophiopsis O.E.Schulz

Smelowskia, sometimes called false candytufts, is a genus of flowering plants in the crucifer family Brassicaceae, native to mountains and arctic regions of Asia and western North America. They may or may not be of Beringian origin.