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|accepted_name=Hesperis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 663. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 297. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Hesperideae;Hesperis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Hesperideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hesperis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek hesperos, evening, alluding to time when flowers of some species are most fragrant
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 226, 235, 242
|treatment_page=page 562
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with caudex; not scapose; pubescent or glabrous, trichomes simple and/or forked, often mixed with unicellular glands on uniseriate stalks. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched or branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate [sessile]; basal rosulate [not rosulate], blade margins entire, dentate, or pinnatifid; cauline similar to basal. <b>Racemes</b> (corymbose), considerably elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate or ascending [reflexed], slender or stout. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong [linear], (sometimes connivent), lateral pair strongly saccate basally, (pubescent or glabrous); petals obovate [oblong], (much longer than sepals), claw distinctly differentiated from blade, (apex rounded [obtuse]); stamens strongly tetradynamous; filaments (erect), slender or dilated basally; anthers linear [oblong], (apex obtuse); nectar glands (2), lateral, annular or lunar. <b>Fruits</b> tardily dehiscent, sessile, linear, torulose; valves each with prominent midvein, glabrous; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules 4–40 per ovary; style obsolete or distinct (relatively short); stigma conical (lobes prominent, connivent or distinct, decurrent). <b>Seeds</b> plump, not winged, oblong; seed coat (reticulate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent.</span><!--

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|distribution=se Europe;c;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America (Argentina;Chile).
|discussion=<p>Species 25 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dvoak1966a
|text=Dvoák, F. 1966. A contribution to the study of the evolution of Hesperis series Matronales Cvl. emend. Dvoák. Feddes Repert. 73: 94–99.
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|id=dvoak1973a
|text=Dvoák, F. 1973. Infrageneric classification of Hesperis. Feddes Repert. 84: 259–272.
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name=Hesperis
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=se Europe;c;sw Asia;n Africa;introduced also in South America (Argentina;Chile).
|introduced=true
|reference=dvoak1966a;dvoak1973a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Hesperideae
|genus=Hesperis
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