Capsella bursa-pastorisMedik.

shepherd's-purse

WFO wfo-0000585589 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. a Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205769360
Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. b Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205892200
Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by lisemari
fig. c lisemari, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204915312
Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by Randy A Nonenmacher
fig. d Randy A Nonenmacher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205035178
Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by cgmayers
fig. e cgmayers, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204969150
Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by Mila C.
fig. f Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204481037
Capsella bursa-pastoris, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. g Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203858774

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 7,414 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 7,414 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 266 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bursa abscissa Druce
  • Bursa alandica (Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa anglica (E.B.Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa astoris [Weber,]
  • Bursa batavorum (Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa belgica (Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa bremensis (E.B.Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa brittonii Druce
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris Britton
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris (L.) Shafer
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris var. heteris Shull
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris var. integrifolia Farw.
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris var. minor Farw.
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris var. rhomboidea Shull
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris var. simplex (Hus) Shull
  • Bursa bursa-pastoris var. tenuis Shull
  • Bursa concava (E.B.Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa divaricata (Walp.) Kuntze
  • Bursa djurdjurae Shull
  • Bursa druceana Druce
  • Bursa fracticruris Borbás
  • Bursa gallica Druce
  • Bursa germanica (E.B.Almq.) Druce
  • Bursa grossa (E.B.Almq.) Druce

and 242 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.