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Small flowered winter-cress

Barbarea stricta

Small flowered winter-cress
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Europe to N. Mongolia
Climate
temperate

About

Barbarea stricta, the small-flowered winter-cress, is a species of plant in the family Brassicaceae.

Where it grows

first described in 1822 from Podolia, what is now the western part of Ukraine. It is native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in parts of North America. It has been reported from all 6 New England states plus Québec, Ontario, New York State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, China, Greenland, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkey, France, England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Hungary, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. It grows on disturbed sites such as roadsides, ditches, cultivated fields, etc.

Other Barbarea plants

Barbarea australis · Balkan Yellow Rocket · Medium flowered winter-cress · American yellowrocket · Early yellowrocket · Garden yellowrocket · Yellowrocket

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Barbarea stricta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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