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Noccaea caerulescens
Also called Alpine Penny Cress
Noccaea caerulescens (previously Thlaspi caerulescens), the alpine penny-cress or alpine pennygrass, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is found in Scandinavia and Europe.
In Europe it is found in Finland and Sweden, in all but the most northerly regions. It is also found in the Alps, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees, eastern Norway, southern Germany, and northern England. It is a plant of dry hillside meadows, forest margins, banks, gardens, lawns, pastures, field margins, yards and bare places.
Noccaea cypria · Kneeland Prairie Pennycress · Fendler's pennycress · Alpine Pennycress · Perfoliate Pennycress · Round Leaved Pennycress · Pennycress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Noccaea caerulescens 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.
