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Noccaea perfoliata
Also called Thoroughwort Pennycress, Clasping Leaved Pennycress
Perfoliate Pennycress is a small annual wildflower in the cabbage family, native to Europe, North Africa and central Asia, and usually found growing wild on dry, open ground. It is seldom grown as a garden or houseplant, so care is mostly about sowing it in full sun and well-drained soil.
Noccaea perfoliata is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is an annual native to southern, central, and southeastern Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia from the eastern Mediterranean to the Altai, Xinjiang, and Pakistan.
Alpine Pennycress · Noccaea cypria · Kneeland Prairie Pennycress · Fendler's pennycress · Alpine Pennycress · Round Leaved Pennycress · Pennycress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Noccaea perfoliata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
