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Rorippa palustris
Also called Marsh yellowcress, Bog yellowcress, Yellow Watercress, Marsh Cress, Yellow Cress, Bog Marshcress, Common Yellowcress
Rorippa palustris, marsh yellow-cress, bog yellow-cress or common yellow-cress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is widespread and native to parts of Africa, and much of Asia, Europe and Eurasia, North America and the Caribbean. It can also be found in other parts of the world as an introduced species and a common weed, for example, in Australia and South America. It is an adaptable plant which grows in many types of damp, wet, and aquatic habitat. It may be an annual, biennial, or perennial plant, and is variable in appearance as well.
Rorippa palustris is native to, or naturalized across much of the globe.
Great Yellow-cress · Lake Watercress · Austrian yellowcress · Hoary yellowcress · Columbian yellowcress · Bluntleaf yellowcress · Curvepod yellowcress · Rorippa gigantea · Chihuahuan yellowcress · Stalkless yellowcress · Spreading yellowcress · Roundfruit yellowcress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rorippa palustris 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.
