*Tropaeolum majus Linnaeus. Nasturtium. Hab: Disturbed areas, cultivated and rarely persistent or present around refuse areas. Dist: Native of tropical America. Weakly persistent in widely scattered areas, as in se. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993).
Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics
Taxonomy Comments: Tropaeaolum majus is considered by Sparre & Andersson (1991) to be a taxon of hybrid origin, not known from wild populations.
Other Comments: It is probably not truly established in our area. {not keyed}
Synonymy: = FNA7, K1, K3, K4, NE, NY, Sparre & Andersson (1991); = n/a – Pa, RAB
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