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Rorippa columbiae
Also called Columbia Watercress, Columbia Yellow Cress
Rorippa columbiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common names Columbian yellowcress and Columbia yellow cress.
It is native to the western United States from central Washington to northeastern California, where it grows in moist to wet, sandy habitat types, such as playas (dry lakes). It is not a common plant; it is known from about fifteen occurrences in the Modoc Plateau region of California, it is a candidate for protection in Oregon, and it is state-listed as a threatened species in Washington.
Great Yellow-cress · Lake Watercress · Austrian yellowcress · Hoary yellowcress · Bluntleaf yellowcress · Curvepod yellowcress · Rorippa gigantea · Chihuahuan yellowcress · Marsh Yellow-cress · Stalkless yellowcress · Spreading yellowcress · Roundfruit yellowcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rorippa columbiae 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.
