Wild radish
Raphanus raphanistrum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Brassicaceae
Also called Jointed Charlock, Charlock, Field Wall Flower, Field Wall-Flower, White Charlock
Formerly Raphanistrum raphanistrum, Raphanistrum vulgare, Rapistrum raphanistrum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Medit. and C. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 75–75 cm; Plants for a Future 1.2–1.2 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Ravenelle, ravenelle
- German
- Acker-Rettich, Ackerrettich
- Spanish
- rabanillo, Pan y Quesito, Jaramau
- root
- RAPRAP, popoyauh, Meacan mara
- Bulgarian
- Дива ряпа
- Hebrew
- צנון מצוי
- Czech
- ředkev ohnice
- Portuguese
- Saramago, Rábano-Silvestre, Labresto
- Danish
- Kiddike
- Galician
- Saramago
- Dutch
- Knopherik, knopherik
- Norwegian Bokmål
- villreddik
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Raphanus raphanistrum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.