Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Winter Cress (Yellow Rocket) |
| Scientific Name | Barbarea vulgaris R. Br. |
| Family Name | Brassicaceae (Mustard Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | wet meadows, damp fields, waste ground and disturbed areas |
| Plant Height: | 20-80 cm (1'-3'); multiple stems from base |
| Flower Color: | yellow |
| Flower: | short stamens partly surrounded at base by a semicircular gland, 4 petals; 4 greenish sepals; 6 stamens, 4 longer, 2 shorter; single ovary with persistent style |
| Inflorescence: | compact, terminal racemes |
| Fruit: | many seeded beaked siliques, beak 2-3 mm |
| Leaves: | alternate; basal leaves petiolate with 1-4 pairs (2-8) of small, elliptic to ovate lateral lobes and a large, ovate to rotund terminal lobe; cauline leaves becoming reduced, clasping stem |
| Bloom Time: | April-June |
| Origins: | non-native |
| Other: | this native of Eurasia is now widely naturalized as a weed |
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