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Greenland northern rockcress

Braya thorild-wulffii

Also called Greenland Braya, Greenland Rockcress

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Russian Far East (Wrangel I.) to Subarctic America
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Braya thorild-wulffii, the Greenland northern rockcress, is a plant species native to Greenland, Nunavut the Canadian Northwest Territories, and from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of eastern Russia.

Braya thorild-wulffii is an herb up to 10 cm (3.9 in) tall, sometimes hairy, sometimes not. Leaves are spatula-shaped, up to 4 cm (1.6 in) long. Flowers are white to purplish, up to 10 mm (0.39 in) in diameter. Fruits spherical or egg-shaped, up to 10 mm (0.39 in) in diameter.

Other Braya plants

Fernald's northern rockcress · Alpine Northern Rockcress · Narrowfruit braya · Long's northern rockcress · Hairy braya · Northern-rockcress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Braya thorild-wulffii 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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