Nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 1.3 m
Tropaeolaceae
Also called Garden nasturtium, Nasties, Indian Cress, Monk Cress, Lark's Heel
Formerly Cardamindum majus, Tropaeolum atrosanguineum, Tropaeolum chaixianum, Tropaeolum compactum, and 15 more
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from PeruKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; RHS full
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–10 ft; RHS 1.5–2.5 m
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.7 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–3 ft; RHS 1.5–2.5 m
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and RHS, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension low; RHS medium
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, orange, pink, red, white, yellow; RHS orange, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Hawaiian
- pohe haole
- root
- Oostindische kers, cuitziquiendas, pelonchili
- Italian
- Nasturzio
- German
- Kapuzinerkresse, Große Kapuzinerkresse
- Spanish
- Mastuerzo sudamericano, Capuchina sudamericana, Taco de reina
- Portuguese
- Chagas, Capuchinha
- Chinese
- 旱金蓮, 金蓮花, 旱莲花
- French
- Grande Capucine
- Hungarian
- Sarkantyúka
- Russian
- Настурция, Капуцин большой, Настурция майская
- Croatian
- Dragoljub
- Lithuanian
- Didžioji nasturtė
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tropaeolum majus (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.