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Roundfruit yellowcress

Rorippa sphaerocarpa

Roundfruit yellowcress
Photo: mark-groeneveld, CC BY 4.0
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
W. & SC. U.S.A. to Mexico (Coahuila)
Climate
temperate

About

Rorippa sphaerocarpa is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common name roundfruit yellowcress. It is native to North America, including the western United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in moist habitat, such as riverbanks and mudflats. It is an annual herb producing decumbent or erect stems up to 40 centimeters long. The leaves are up to 10 centimeters long and have blades are deeply divided into toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a raceme of mustardlike flowers with yellow petals each no more than a millimeter long. The fruit is a round silique 1 or 2 millimeters wide.

Other Rorippa plants

Great Yellow-cress · Lake Watercress · Austrian yellowcress · Hoary yellowcress · Columbian yellowcress · Bluntleaf yellowcress · Curvepod yellowcress · Rorippa gigantea · Chihuahuan yellowcress · Marsh Yellow-cress · Stalkless yellowcress · Spreading yellowcress

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rorippa sphaerocarpa 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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