Barbarea orthoceras |
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American winter cress |
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Habit | Plants biennial or perennial. |
Stems | (1)2–6(10) dm, glabrous. |
Basal leaves | glabrous or ciliate basally; blades (1)1.5–6(11) cm, lyrate-pinnatifid, with (1)2–4(5) lateral lobes,, oblong or ovate, 2–10 × 1–5 mm; terminal lobes > laterals, 15–50 × 10–25 mm; petioles (0.5)1–7(15) cm. |
Cauline leaves | lyrate-pinnatifid, with 1–4 lateral lobes; uppermost incised or pinnatifid; auricles with hairs or rarely glabrous, sessile. |
Inflorescences | fruiting pedicels erect or ascending; (2)3–6(7) mm; narrower than fruits. |
Flowers | sepals erect, oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm, yellow; tips rounded and with hairs or rarely glabrous; lateral pair slightly saccate; petals oblanceolate, 5–7(8) × (1.5)2–3 mm, yellow; styles stout, 0.2–1(2) mm in fruit. |
Fruits | (25)31–40(45) × 1.5–2 mm; terete to subquadrangular, torulose; erect to ascending, rarely appressed to rachis. |
Seeds | (24)26–36 per fruit; ovate or oblong; plump, 1.2–1.5 × 0.9–1 mm; wingless. |
2n | =16. |
Barbarea orthoceras |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Alpine meadows, boggy ground, grasslands, sandbars, scree, rocky cliffs, forests, riverbanks, streambanks, disturbed areas. Flowering Mar–Aug. 0–2700 m. All ecoregions except Col. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout Canada, northern and western US; Asia. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 445 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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Synonyms | Barbarea orthoceras var. dolichocarpa, Barbarea orthoceras var. orthoceras |
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