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Noccaea cypria

Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
W. Cyprus
Climate
temperate

About

Noccaea cypria, the Cyprus penny-cress, is a perennial herb, flowering from February to May. This herb is a nickel hyperaccumulator with a recorded accumulation rate of 52,120 mg/kg of dry weight.

Where it grows

Moist rocky slopes and near streams on igneous rocks at 900–1900 metres elevation.

Other Noccaea plants

Alpine Pennycress · Kneeland Prairie Pennycress · Fendler's pennycress · Alpine Pennycress · Perfoliate Pennycress · Round Leaved Pennycress · Pennycress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Noccaea cypria 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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