Rorippa curvipes |
Rorippa sylvestris |
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bluntleaf yellowcress, common yellowcress |
creeping yellowcress, shore yellowcress |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. | |
Stems | (0.5)1.5–8(10) dm. |
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Basal leaves | (2)3.5–15(20) × (0.7)1–4.5(6) cm, bases not or rarely minutely auriculate; margins deeply pinnatisect; lateral lobes 3–6 on each side of midvein, linear, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, dentate or subentire, petiolate. |
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Cauline leaves | similar to basal, bases uppermost pinnatisect, with 1–3 lateral lobes, usually subsessile. |
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Inflorescences | fruiting pedicels divaricate; straight; (3)4–10(12) mm. |
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Flowers | sepals ascending or spreading, caducous, 1.8–3(3.5) mm; petals spatulate or obovate; (2.5)3–5.5(6) × 1.5–2.5 mm; ovules 24–80 per ovary; septa complete; styles 0.5–1(1.5) mm. |
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Fruits | siliques, linear, 10–20(25) × (0.7)1–1.3(1.6) mm, glabrous; valves glabrous. |
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Seeds | rarely produced, uniseriate or subbiseriate; ovoid, 0.5–0.9 × 0.4–0.5 mm; reddish brown. |
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2n | =32, 40, 48. |
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Rorippa curvipes |
Rorippa sylvestris |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Washes, meadows, ditches, sandy beaches, shores of ponds and lakes, disturbed areas, fields. Flowering May–Aug. 50–900 m. BW, ECas, WV. CA, ID, WA; scattered throughout North America; Europe. Exotic. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 507 Ihsan Al-Shehbaz |
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Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Rorippa curvipes var. curvipes, Rorippa curvipes var. truncata | |
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