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Cochlearia groenlandica
Also called Scurvygrass, Greenland Cochlearia, Greenland Scurvygrass, Danish Scurvy Grass
Cochlearia groenlandica, known in English as polar scurvygrass or Greenland scurvy-grass, is a flowering plant of the scurvy-grass genus in the cabbage family.
The range of polar scurvygrass is circumpolar, present on all the lands around the Arctic Ocean, in all the major Arctic regions. Around the Arctic it is native to Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Svalbard, Russia, and the United States. In the US it mainly grows in Alaska, but also grows on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, on sea bluffs in Coos and Curry counties Oregon, and on offshore rocks in the far north of California in Del Norte County. In Canada it is part of the flora of British Columbia, Labrador and Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, and the Yukon. Away from the Arctic it also grows in parts of Japan.
English Scurvygrass · Early scurvygrass · Spoonwort · Tatra Scurvy-grass · Scurvygrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cochlearia groenlandica 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.
