The Identity of Crambe suecica (Brassicaceae), an Obscure Garden Plant That Caused Nomenclatural Chaos in Taxonomic Botany
Journal: Taxonomy
Year: 2026

Plant species established on the basis of early garden cultivation may have lacked the original information about their native geographical origin. Crambe suecica was originally described from its 18th-century cultivation in the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, raised from seeds without provenance that were sent from Saint Petersburg. This species has been misunderstood as native to the Baltic Sea coasts and, consequently, misinterpreted as a taxonomic synonym of C. maritima. We infer from plant